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Auto/biography in Canada : critical directions /

"Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions widens the field of auto/biography studies with its sophisticated multidisciplinary perspectives on the theory, criticism, and practice of self, community, and representation. Rather than considering autobiography and biography as discrete genres w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rak, Julie, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005.
Colección:Life writing series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction, widening the field : auto/biography theory and criticism in Canada / Julie Rak
  • Generations of the Holocaust in Canadian auto/biography / Susanna Egan & Gabriele Helms
  • The modern Hiawatha : Grey Owl's construction of his Aboriginal self / Albert Braz
  • "This is my memory, a fact" : the many mediations of Mothertalk: life stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka / Sally Chivers
  • Auto/biographical jurisdictions : collaboration, self-representation, and the law in Stolen life: the journey of a Cree woman / Deena Rymhs
  • Biographical versus biological lives : auto/biography and non-speaking persons labelled intellectually disabled / Ann Fudge Schormans
  • A transfer boy : about himself / Ljiljana Vuletic & Michel Ferrari
  • Creativity, cultural studies, and potentially fun ways to design and produce autobiographical material from subalterns' locations / Si Transken
  • Camp, kitsch, queer : Carole Pope and Toller Cranston perform on the page / Andrew Lesk
  • Writing lives in death : Canadian death notices as auto/biography / Laurie McNeill
  • (Un)tying the knot of patriarchy : agency and subjectivity in the autobiographical writings of France Théoret and Nelly Arcan / Barbara Havercroft
  • Auto/bio/fiction in migrant women's writings in Québec : Régine Robin's La Québécoite and L'immense fatigue des pierres / Yuko Yamade
  • "The ensign of the mop and the dustbin" : the maternal and the material in autobiographical writings by Laura Goodman Salverson and Nellie McClung / Wendy Roy.