Telling Women's Lives : Subject/Narrator/Reader/Text.

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For centuries, the "great man" format and masculine discourse of biography and autobiography have eclipsed women. If we accept this history, we remain ignorant of "Lady Sarashina," a Japanese woman of the Han period, whose book survives from the 11th century. We overlook Margaret...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Long, Judy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 1999.
Colección:Feminist Crosscurrents S.
Temas:
Autobiography.
Women > Biography > History and criticism.
Autobiographie.
Femmes > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
autobiography (genre)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Women > Biography.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:For centuries, the "great man" format and masculine discourse of biography and autobiography have eclipsed women. If we accept this history, we remain ignorant of "Lady Sarashina," a Japanese woman of the Han period, whose book survives from the 11th century. We overlook Margaret Cavendish and Dame Julian, two early English autobiographers. And we fail to consider sufficiently slave narratives, oral histories, or lesbian "coming out" stories. Telling Women's Lives assesses existing traditions of autobiography and biography in search of a method capable of conveyin.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (201 pages)
ISBN:9780814765227
081476522X

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