"Through the long corridor of distance" : : space and self in contemporary New Zealand women's autobiographies / / Valérie Baisnée.

• Superior document: Cross/Cultures : Readings in the post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ; 175
• Author: Baisnée, Valérie.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Rodopi,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/Cultures 175.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (177 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Examined in this study are twentieth- and twenty-first century autobiographies and memoirs by major New Zealand women writers. Brought together for the first time in a single study, texts by Sylvia Ashton–Warner, Janet Frame, Lauris Edmond, Fiona Kidman, Barbara Anderson, Ruth Park, and Ruth Dallas are analysed with the aid of spatial concepts that probe unexplored aspects of their life-narratives. Drawing on recent and revised concepts of place and space in cultural geography, philosophy, and sociology, the book ac¬knowledges the link between identities and locations in a non-essentialist way by pinpointing the various forms of inhabit¬ing and being in space. It refutes the idea of autobiographies as pure self-referential texts, and shows how these works deploy their own horizon of reference.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Thresholds -- Homes -- Displaced Bodies, Disembodied Texts -- Landscapes -- Itineraries -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.