![]() ![]() ![]() Our analysis will primarily focus on the second concept (“life-course of a living being”) which is more relevant to our case study. ![]() bi-, bio-living organism, mode of life + graphia-graphy” 2). This genre is distinct from the biography genre, in which the narrator and the main character of the story have two separate identities (“an account of a person’s life written or produced by someone else”).Biography can benefit from an enlarged semantic connotation, no longer restrictedtoa“written life of a person” but designating also “a branch of literature dealing with persons’ lives”, and/or “life-course of a living being” (from “L. 2 Concise Oxford Dictionary, 5 th edition, Oxford, Clarendon, 1960.ġOur primary assumption would be that Live from Death Row 1, a narration of daily life in an American death row prison by Mumia Abu-Jamal, a death row prisoner himself, belongs to the autobiography genre, defined by dictionaries as “the biography of a person that is written by that person”.Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, USA, 1995. 1 Mumia Abu-Jamal, Live from Death Row. ![]()
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