Ancient Greek Romance in Contemporary Female Autobiography
Ancient Greek Romance in Contemporary Female Autobiography

Summary/Abstract: "It is evident that female autobiography as a literary genre has a character of its own, one idiosyncratic feature being the strong tendency of subjectivation. The question of female identity in relation to postmodern subjectivity has been lively debated during the past couple of decades (e.g. Benhabib 1992; Miller 1994). Somewhat surprisingly perhaps, some of the features that have been addressed to postmodernity seem to fit female autobiography as well, a genre we might not at first hand call postmodern. One such feature typical of postmodern novel (see Tlostanova 2001: 78) is a certain type of fictionality which appears as correlation of reality and illusion, mythologizing the reality, showing fluidity and shiftiness of cultural authenticity, as well as depicting the self with many masks."[...]

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