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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1989Description: 1 online resource (408 p.) : 5 b&w photographsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501745560
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.4/092/4 19
LOC classification:
  • HQ1185 .L54 1988
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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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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.

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