Lauren Rusk. The Life Writing of Ot...

Lauren Rusk. The Life Writing of Otherness: Woolf Baldwin, Kingston, and Winterson. fresh York: Routledge, 2002. 197 pp ISBN 0-8153-3655-1 $6500

Lauren Rusk's consideration of "life writing," as oppos to traditional autobiography, focuses forward "writing that is from as well as about the subject's life" (3); of the like kind writing participates in a dialectical proces of composite social as well as aesthetic engagements with its readers. For the four writers Rusk discusses, of that kind engagements emerge from the construction of a "textual self" that invokes the