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A guilty would-be biographer externalises his inner anxieties.

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Art Spiegelman, Maus

January 6, 2011

Maus, like most relational autobiographies, focuses on the story of the story, conveying Art Spiegelman’s struggle to get his father to tell the story of his Holocaust experiences.

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Helen Tse, Sweet Mandarin

January 6, 2011

This tale of three generations of Chinese women retains its charming oral origins.

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Reconstructing the life of his dead brother, Ken Dornstein loses hold of his own.

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My account of five relational autobiographies – stories where the narrator’s relationship with his auto/biographical subject is of utmost importance.

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