Susanna Egan. Mirror Talk: Genre of...

Susanna Egan. Mirror Talk: Genre of Crisis in Contemporary Autobiography. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P 1999 275 pp ISBN 0-8078-24992 $4995 cloth; ISBN 0-8078-4782-8 $1595 paper.

Positioned at the use of the century, Susanna Egan's Mirror Talk charts the critical issues shaping autobiographical studies into the 21st by means of a genealogical survey of what she seasons "dialogic" or "polyphonic" autobiographies emerging in the latter half of the 20th Citing early modernism as a possible originating site of the ne for an externalized doubling of