Sporting autobiographies - how the formation of personal identity is changed through

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Eddy, Jake
Date
2013Publisher
Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Throughout life, each individual is experiencing and displaying different
identities re-creating themselves dependant on interactions and contextually
relevant incidents. Exposure to books and specifically, autobiographies is
becoming an ever increasing occurrence as the level produced greatens. This
research looks specifically at sporting autobiographies and how when reading
these it can not only shape but change your own personal identity as your
interpretations of the text can relate to yourself, your own past and present
experiences and also how you perceive yourself in the future. In combining
thematic analysis with self-narrative, the study aims to both tell and show how
personal identity can be changed through the realm of reading.