Repossessing the world : reading memoirs by contemporary women / Helen M. Buss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buss, Helen M.

Series:

Life writing series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiography--Women authors.

Autobiography.

Women--Biography--History and criticism.

Women.

Women--Biography.

Prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Prose literature.

Physical Description:

xxv, 206 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2002]

Contents:

An Autobiocritical Preface: Writing As a Memoirist xi

Chapter 1 Introduction: Memoir As a Life-Writing Discourse 1

Chapter 2 Memoir with an Attitude: One Reader Reads The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts 27

Chapter 3 Identity As a Balancing Act: Memoirs' Practice of Non-Sacrificial Rituals of Self-Performance 57

Chapter 4 Dancing with Our Mothers: Reading and Writing Memoirs As a Mother and a Daughter 85

Chapter 5 "Scenes of Language" Trauma and the Search for Form in Women's Memoirs 121

Chapter 6 Joining Heart and Head: Contemporary Academic Women's Uses of the Memoir Form 163

Conclusion: Repossessing a Relational Autonomy That Resists Appropriation 183.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

088920408X

0889204101

OCLC:

48118025