Literary Forgery and Écriture Féminine in Lee Israel's Can You Ever Forgive Me?

The article analyzes Lee Israel's autobiographical memoir "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" and its film adaptation of the same title to argue that the American author's acts of literary forgery may be attempts at imagining a new form of female canon and authorship. It explains how her preference to produc...

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Published in:	Women's Studies Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 406 - 418
Main Author:	Öz, Özge
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun2023
Subjects:	Can You Ever Forgive Me? Memoirs of a Literary Forger (Book) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Film) Israel, Lee, 1939-2014 Literary forgeries & mystifications Authorship Memoirs Film adaptations American women authors
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