Writing history/writing about yourself: What’s the difference?
Book chapter
Fitzpatrick, Sheila. (2017). Writing history/writing about yourself: What’s the difference? In In D. Munro and J. Reid (Ed.). Clio’s Lives: Biographies and Autobiographies of Historians pp. 17 - 37 ANU Press. https://doi.org/10.22459/CL.10.2017
Authors | Fitzpatrick, Sheila |
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Editors | D. Munro and J. Reid |
Abstract | [Extract] According to Philippe Lejeune, writers of autobiography implicitly sign a pact with the reader to tell the truth, or at least the truth as they know it, about themselves. That is, primarily a subjective truth. As for facts, the expectation is presumably that autobiographers will convey the facts as they know or remember them, but without a necessary obligation to check their memory through documentary or other research. There is no autobiographer’s commitment to objectivity, rather the contrary. The autobiographical truth is, by definition, a subjective one. |
Keywords | biography; autobiography; history |
Page range | 17 - 37 |
Year | 2017 |
Book title | Clio’s Lives: Biographies and Autobiographies of Historians |
Publisher | ANU Press |
Place of publication | Australia |
ISBN | 9781760461430 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.22459/CL.10.2017 |
Research Group | Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
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