Running (from) the family toward story

"During certain hours, at certain years in our lives, we see ourselves as remnants from the earlier generations that were destroyed" (Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family, 179). This meditation on the contingencies of autobiography and biography employs Susanna Egon and Paul Eakin to unpack the covert trajectory within every family memoir. Using Michael Ondaatje's fragmented and intensely erotic auto/biography, Running in the Family, to frame the generative chaos of inheritance and genealogy, this textual bricolage seeks to subvert the aphoristic essentialism of stories familial and histori... Mehr ...