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Identity, Identicality, and Life Writing: Telling (The Silent) Twins Apart

Identity, Identicality, and Life Writing: Telling (The Silent) Twins Apart <p>Identical twins challenge the Western valorization of the individual, and thus the major life-writing genres, autobiography and biography. The intense bond between Jennifer and June Gibbons, and their elective mutism, made their biography an unlikely project, but their obsessive journal-writing documented their lives in great detail. Marjorie Wallace&apos;s The Silent Twins demonstrates--and surmounts--the difficulty of representing identical twins.</p> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Biography University of Hawai'I Press

Identity, Identicality, and Life Writing: Telling (The Silent) Twins Apart

Couser, G. Thomas.
Biography , Volume 26 (2) – Jul 8, 2003
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<p>Identical twins challenge the Western valorization of the individual, and thus the major life-writing genres, autobiography and biography. The intense bond between Jennifer and June Gibbons, and their elective mutism, made their biography an unlikely project, but their obsessive journal-writing documented their lives in great detail. Marjorie Wallace&apos;s The Silent Twins demonstrates--and surmounts--the difficulty of representing identical twins.</p>

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Published: Jul 8, 2003

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