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Repossessing the World : Reading Memoirs by Contemporary Women.
Why does it seem as if everyone is writing memoirs, and particularly women? The current popularity of memoir verifies the common belief that we each have a story to tell. And we do ... especially women. Memoirs are not only representations of women's personal lives but also of their desire to r...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waterloo :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Why does it seem as if everyone is writing memoirs, and particularly women? The current popularity of memoir verifies the common belief that we each have a story to tell. And we do ... especially women. Memoirs are not only representations of women's personal lives but also of their desire to repossess important parts of our culture, in which women's stories have not mattered. Beginning with her own motivations for writing memoirs, Helen M. Buss examines the many kinds of memoir written by contemporary women: memoirs about growing up, memoirs about traumatic events, about relationships, abo. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (235 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780889209411 0889209413 |