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Autobiographical Voices : Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture.

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 Nea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lionnet, Françoise
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Colección:Reading Women Writing Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Autobiographical Voices; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Politics and Aesthetics of Métissage; Part I Rereading the Past; 1. Augustine's Confessions: Poetics of Harmony, or the Ideal Reader in the Text; 2. Silence and Circularity in Ecce Homo: ""Und so erzÃÞhle ich mir mein Leben; Part II Creating a Tradition; 3. Autoethnography: The An-Archic Style of Dust Tracks on a Road; 4. Con Artists and Storytellers: Maya Angelou's Problematic Sense of Audience; 5. Happiness Deferred: Maryse Condé's Heremakhonon and the Failure of Enunciation.
  • 6. Privileged Difference and the Possibility of Emancipation: The Words to Say It and A l'autre bout de moi7. Anamnesis and Utopia: Self-Portrait of the Web Maker in A l'autre bout de moi; Conclusion; Index.