Janet Varner Gunn teaches in the Department of English at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. She is the author of Second Life: A West Bank Memoir.

"An accurate and elegant volume which constitutes a genuine breakthrough in the controversial theory of autobiography" (Paul Ricoeur) "There is much sophistication and not a little daring in her stance, making hers a book that will attract not only those concerned with autobiography per se but all those other readers interested in the quarrels of contemporary literary theory." (Elizabeth Bruss)

Janet Varner Gunn teaches in the Department of English at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. She is the author of Second Life: A West Bank Memoir.

"An accurate and elegant volume which constitutes a genuine breakthrough in the controversial theory of autobiography" (Paul Ricoeur) "There is much sophistication and not a little daring in her stance, making hers a book that will attract not only those concerned with autobiography per se but all those other readers interested in the quarrels of contemporary literary theory." (Elizabeth Bruss)

Janet Varner Gunn teaches in the Department of English at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. She is the author of Second Life: A West Bank Memoir.

"An accurate and elegant volume which constitutes a genuine breakthrough in the controversial theory of autobiography" (Paul Ricoeur) "There is much sophistication and not a little daring in her stance, making hers a book that will attract not only those concerned with autobiography per se but all those other readers interested in the quarrels of contemporary literary theory." (Elizabeth Bruss)