Mapping our selves : Canadian women's autobiography in English / Helen M. Buss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buss, Helen M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Canada--Biography--History and criticism.

Women.

Autobiography--Women authors.

Autobiography.

Autobiography--Canada--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Buss supplies a framework for her study by reviewing male-centred theories of identity and some of the ways in which theorists working with women's autobiographical accounts are changing these models. The texts selected by Buss include those by Elizabeth Simcoe, Susanna Moodie, Anna Jameson, Nellie McClung, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Emily Carr, Laura Salverson, Margaret Laurence, Dorothy Livesay, Daphne Marlatt, Mary Meigs, Maria Campbell, Kristjana Gunnars, and Aritha van Herk. Each section of the book opens with a short autobiographical introduction by Buss, allowing the reader to place the author's critical practice within the context of her sense of her own identity as critic, writer, and woman.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Contexts

Reading for an Alternate Tradition

Pioneer Women’s Diaries and Journals: Letters Home / Letters to the Future

Pioneer Women’s Memoirs: Preserving the Past / Rescuing the Self

Two Exemplary Early Texts: Moodie’s Roughing It and Jameson’s Studies and Rambles

On Becoming a Twentieth-Century Woman

Achieving Women / Achieving Womanhood

Literary Women: Finding "The Words to Say It"

Finding a Counter-discourse

Gestures towards an Embodied Tradition

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references: p. [217]-227 and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85624-3

9786612856242

0-7735-6376-8

OCLC:

767671205