TY - BOOK AU - Brodzki,Bella AU - Ahmed,Leila AU - Brodzki,Bella AU - Brée,Germaine AU - Carr,Helen AU - Felstiner,Mary Lowenthal AU - Goodman,Katherine R. AU - Green,Mary Jean AU - Heilbrun,Carolyn G. AU - Lionnet,Françoise AU - Martin,Biddy AU - Mason,Mary G. AU - McKay,Nellie Y. AU - Miller,Nancy K. AU - Portuges,Catherine AU - Raynaud,Claudine AU - Reimer,Gail Twersky AU - Schenck,Celeste AU - Sommer,Doris TI - Life/Lines: Theorizing Women's Autobiography SN - 9781501745560 AV - HQ1185 .L54 1988 U1 - 305.4/092/4 19 PY - 2019///] CY - Ithaca, NY : PB - Cornell University Press, KW - Women's studies KW - Biographical methods KW - Biography & Autobiography KW - Literary Studies KW - Womens Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors KW - bisacsh N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745560 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501745560 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501745560/original ER -