Living autobiographically

Paul John Eakin's contributions to autobiographical studies

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Keywords:

Identidade Narrativa, Autobiografia, Memória.

Abstract

In Living Autobiographically: The Construction of Our Narrative Identity, Paul John Eakin understands the construction of the individual's narrative identity as an ongoing process, based in a combination from sociocultural and biological factors. His argument that people live autobiographically is built from the interaction with different areas of knowledge such as History, Neurobiology and Psychology, making it possible to think of the autobiographical exercise from a perspective that interests not only debates on the genre of autobiography, but also on topics such as Internet exposure and memory. Therefore, it is a work that deserves attention from those interested in these topics, in view of the interesting provocations it brings to light.

Keywords: Narrative Identity; Autobiography; Memory.

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Author Biography

Fabiana Alves Dantas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)

Doutoranda em História na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte e professora de História na rede municipal de Currais Novos/RN. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3543-5341. E-mail: fabiana.dantas03@gmail.com.

Published

2024-08-19

How to Cite

DANTAS, Fabiana Alves. Living autobiographically: Paul John Eakin’s contributions to autobiographical studies. Revista Aedos, [S. l.], v. 16, n. 37, p. 546–552, 2024. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/aedos/article/view/116315. Acesso em: 9 aug. 2026.