Autobiographical voices : race, gender, self-portraiture / Francoise Lionnet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lionnet, Françoise, author.

Contributor:

en Book Program, funder.

Series:

Reading women writing.

Reading women writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Biography--History and criticism.

Women.

Autobiography--Women authors--History and criticism.

Autobiography.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York ; London, [England] : Cornell University Press, [1989]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Françoise Lionnet is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Postcolonial Representations: Women, Literature, Identity, also from Cornell University Press.

Summary:

Adopting a boldly innovative approach to women's autobiographical writing, Françoise Lionnet here examines the rhetoric of self-portraiture in works by authors who are bilingual or multilingual or of mixed races or cultures. Autobiographical Voices offers incisive readings of texts by Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou, Marie Cardinal, Maryse Condé, Marie-Thérèse Humbert, Augustine, and Nietzsche.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Contents

Preface

Introduction. The Politics and Aesthetics of Metissage

Part I. Rereading the Past

Part II. Creating a Tradition

Conclusion

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8014-9927-5

1-5017-2310-3

OCLC:

1028942844