Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Between Text and Author
- 1 Fiction and Memory in Misery Memoirs
- 2 Gender Hoaxing: Rahila Khan, Anthony Godby Johnson and J. T. LeRoy
- 3 Indigenous Envy: Wanda Koolmatrie and Nasdijj
- 4 ‘Falsifying Downward’: Margaret B. Jones and James Frey
- 5 Self-Advertising Hoaxes: Araki Yasusada and Jiri Kajanë
- 6 False and Embellished Holocaust Testimony
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2016
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Between Text and Author
- 1 Fiction and Memory in Misery Memoirs
- 2 Gender Hoaxing: Rahila Khan, Anthony Godby Johnson and J. T. LeRoy
- 3 Indigenous Envy: Wanda Koolmatrie and Nasdijj
- 4 ‘Falsifying Downward’: Margaret B. Jones and James Frey
- 5 Self-Advertising Hoaxes: Araki Yasusada and Jiri Kajanë
- 6 False and Embellished Holocaust Testimony
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
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- Textual DeceptionsFalse Memoirs and Literary Hoaxes in the Contemporary Era, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2014