Download or read book The Uses Of Autobiography written by Julia Swindells Homerton College, Cambridge. and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1995. Autobiography is commonly understood in terms of giving readers insight into the private lives of unique individuals, but in recent years the autobiographical project has absorbed a wide variety of social concerns. The contributors to this book explore a range of the uses of autobiography from the nineteenth-century to the present day, and from Africa, USA, the Middle East, France, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The chapters draw on a number of approaches, including historical and literary methods to represent the autobiography's purpose of establishing communities of interest and social change.