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