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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; An Autobiocritical Preface: Writing As a Memoirist; Chapter 1 Introduction: Memoir As a Life-Writing Discourse; Chapter 2 Memoir with an Attitude: One Reader Reads The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts; Chapter 3 Identity As a Balancing Act: Memoirs' Practice of Non-Sacrificial Rituals of Self-Performance; Chapter 4 Dancing with Our Mothers: Reading and Writing Memoirs As a Mother and a Daughter; Chapter 5 "Scenes of Language": Trauma and the Search for Form in Women's Memoirs.