Autobiographical Voices : : Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture / / Françoise Lionnet.

Adopting a boldly innovative approach to women's autobiographical writing, Françoise Lionnet here examines the rhetoric of self-portraiture in works by authors who are bilingual or multilingual or of mixed races or cultures. Autobiographical Voices offers incisive readings of texts by Zora Neal...

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press,, [2018]
©1991
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Reading women writing.
Physical Description:1 online resource (280 pages).
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Foreword --
Contents --
Preface --
Introduction. The Politics and Aesthetics of Metissage --
Part I. Rereading the Past --
Part II. Creating a Tradition --
Conclusion --
Index
Summary:Adopting a boldly innovative approach to women's autobiographical writing, Françoise Lionnet here examines the rhetoric of self-portraiture in works by authors who are bilingual or multilingual or of mixed races or cultures. Autobiographical Voices offers incisive readings of texts by Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou, Marie Cardinal, Maryse Condé, Marie-Thérèse Humbert, Augustine, and Nietzsche.
ISBN:1501723103
Access:open access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Françoise Lionnet.