Life/Lines : : Theorizing Women's Autobiography /

Life/Lines : : Theorizing Women's Autobiography / / Celeste Schenck, Bella Brodzki.

Autobiography raises a vital issue in feminist critical theory today: the imperative need to situate the female subject. Life/Lines, a collection of essays on women's autobiography, attempts to meet this need.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
VerfasserIn:
Brodzki, Bella,
Schenck, Celeste,
MitwirkendeR:
Ahmed, Leila,
Brodzki, Bella,
Brée, Germaine,
Carr, Helen,
Felstiner, Mary Lowenthal,
Goodman, Katherine R.,
Green, Mary Jean,
Heilbrun, Carolyn G.,
Lionnet, Françoise,
Martin, Biddy,
Mason, Mary G.,
McKay, Nellie Y.,
Miller, Nancy K.,
Portuges, Catherine,
Raynaud, Claudine,
Reimer, Gail Twersky,
Schenck, Celeste,
Sommer, Doris,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1989
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.) :; 5 b&w photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Positioning the Female Autobiographical Subject
  • 1. Positioning the Female Autobiographical Subject The Other Voice: Autobiographies of Women Writers
  • 2. Writing Fictions: Women's Autobiography in France
  • 3. Non-Autobiographies of "Privileged" Women: England and America
  • 4. Lesbian Identity and Autobiographical Difference[s]
  • Part II. Colonized Subjects and Subversive Discourses
  • 5. "Not Just a Personal Story": Women's Testimonios and the Plural Self
  • 6. In Other Words: Native American Women's Autobiography
  • 7. Between Two Worlds: The Formation of a Turn-of-the-Century Egyptian Feminist
  • 8. Race, Gender, and Cultural Context in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road
  • 9. Structures of Liberation: Female Experience and Autobiographical Form in Quebec
  • Part III. Double Messages: Maternal Legacies! Mythographies
  • 10. Revisions of Labor in Margaret Oliphant's Autobiography
  • 11. "A Nutmeg Nestled Inside Its Covering of Mace": Audre Lorde's Zami
  • 12. Mothers, Displacement, and Language in the Autobiographies of Nathalie Sarraute and Christa Wolf
  • 13. Métissage, Emancipation, and Female Textuality in Two Francophone Writers
  • Part IV. De-Limiting Genre: Other Autobiographical Acts
  • 14. All of a Piece: Women's Poetry and Autobiography
  • 15. Elisabeth to Meta: Epistolary Autobiography and the Postulation of the Self
  • 16. Taking Her Life/History: The Autobiography of Charlotte Salomon
  • 17. Seeing Subjects: Women Directors and Cinematic Autobiography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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