Autobiography as historical source books

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TEXTS AS HISTORIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES: REREADING FERNAND BRAUDEL AND ANNIE KRIEGEL JAUME AURELL Recent critical approaches to life writing highlight the ways in which autobiographies are being inscribed and used, the expanding field of writers from diverse cultural and professional spheres, and the renewed manner of structuring self-representation.

Today, writers of autobiography include recent immigrants, politicians, survivors of traumatic experiences, ex-presidents and their wives, corporate CEOs, and, interestingly, historians. Indeed, the growing number of autobiographies that have arisen from the academy, traditionally the domain of objectivity and ponderation, obliges us to reconsider the place of autobiographical writing in possible dialogue with scholarly production.

In this epistemological context, the significant rise of historian-autobiographe