"In an age where our experiences are processed and filtered through a wide variety of mediums, both digital and physical, how do we tell our own story? How do we 'get a life,' make sense of who we are and the way we live, and communicate that to others? [This book] takes the literary study of autobiography and opens it up to a broad ... range of material practices beyond the book, investigating the manifold ways people are documenting themselves in contemporary culture"--Back cove

Anna Poletti is Associate Professor of English Literature and Culture at Utrecht University and co-author of Life Narratives and Youth Culture: Representation, Agency and Participation.