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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
---|---|
Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2018.
|
Colección: | Reading Women Writing Ser.
|
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.