Abstract
This article develops an understanding of role of life writing in putting marginalized voices on by examining material and symbolic history of book and its relationship with life writing. Taking two key points in history of book as its focus, article argues that the record is a material and symbolic performative site that authorizes a life writer's claims to knowledge and experience. Through a reading of Jean-Paul Sartre's 1963 autobiography Les Mots ( The Words ) article demonstrates importance of book to how life writers and scholars of life writing conceptualize cultural, political, and social importance of telling stories from life.
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