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Mapping our selves : Canadian women's autobiography in English /

In Mapping Our Selves Helen Buss considers a broad range of autobiographical works written by Canadian women, including memoirs, journals, and conventional autobiography as well as experiments in blending a number of writing genres. She constructs her own "mapping" theory of how female ide...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Buss, Helen M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1993.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • pt. 1. Reading for an Alternate Tradition. 1. Pioneer Women's Diaries and Journals: Letters Home/Letters to the Future. 2. Pioneer Women's Memoirs: Preserving the Past/Rescuing the Self. 3. Two Exemplary Tools: Moodie's Roughing It and Jameson's Studies and Rambles
  • pt. 2. On Becoming a Twentieth-Century Woman. 4. Achieving Women/Achieving Womanhood. 5. Literary Women: Finding "The Words to Say It"
  • pt. 3. Finding a Counter-Discourse. 6. Gestures towards an Embodied Tradition.