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Repossessing the World : Reading Memoirs by Contemporary Women /

A critical inquiry into women's use of the memoir.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Buss, Helen M.
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2002.
Colección:Life writing series.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Autobiocritical preface
  • Memoir as a life-writing discourse
  • Memoir with an attitude : one reader reads The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts
  • Identity as a balancing act : memoirs' practice of non-sacrificial rituals of self-performance
  • Dancing with our mothers : reading and writing memoirs as a mother and a daughter
  • "Scenes of language" : trauma and the search for form in women's memoirs
  • Joining heart and head : contemporary academic women's use of the memoir form
  • Repossessing a relational autonomy that resists appropriation.