Life/Lines : Theorizing Women's Autobiography /
Brodzki, Bella
Life/Lines : Theorizing Women's Autobiography / Celeste Schenck, Bella Brodzki. - 1 online resource (408 p.) : 5 b&w photographs
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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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501745560
10.7591/9781501745560 doi
Women's studies--Biographical methods.
Biography & Autobiography.
Literary Studies.
Womens Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors.
HQ1185 / .L54 1988
305.4/092/4
Life/Lines : Theorizing Women's Autobiography / Celeste Schenck, Bella Brodzki. - 1 online resource (408 p.) : 5 b&w photographs
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501745560
10.7591/9781501745560 doi
Women's studies--Biographical methods.
Biography & Autobiography.
Literary Studies.
Womens Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors.
HQ1185 / .L54 1988
305.4/092/4