Constructions of the body are examined in relation to the material evidence of the subjects existence. Boldrini considers the ethical implications of assuming anothers first-person voice, and the fraught issue of authorial responsibility. In such texts, the grammatical first person becomes the site of an encounter, a stage where the relationships between historical, fictional and authorial subjectivities are played out and explored in the double I of author and narrating historical character, of fictional narrator and historical person. Boldrini shows that this mode is widely employed to reflect critically on the historical and philosophical understanding of the human on individual identity and on the power relationships that define the subject.
In this volume, Boldrini examines "heterobiography" -the first-person fictional account of a historic life.
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