ABSTRACT
If we are interested in autobiography – interested as literary and cultural theorists, as historians and sociologists – then we work with two tacit assumptions. The first is that somehow, in some way, the production of written forms has something to do with the production of subjectivities; and the second is that this process is a voluntary one, that there is an urge to tell the self, that it comes from within, and that the impulsion to do so, in spoken or written language, is part of the very process of self construction.
