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

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Buss, Helen M.
Series:
Life writing series.
Life writing series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Autobiography--Women authors.
Autobiography.
Women--Biography--History and criticism.
Women.
Prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Prose literature.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (235 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2002.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
A critical inquiry into women's use of the memoir.
Contents:
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.
Notes:
Incxludes index.
Includes bibliographical references: p. 191-199.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9786610926008
9780889204096
0889204098
9781280926006
1280926007
9780889209411
0889209413
9780585463407
0585463409
OCLC:
753479473

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