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Working in women's archives : researching women's private literature and archival documents / Helen M. Buss and Marlene Kadar, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Life writing series.
- Life writing series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women authors, Canadian--Biography--History and criticism.
- Women authors, Canadian.
- Canadian literature--Women authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Canadian literature.
- Women authors, Canadian--Archives.
- Women authors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (129 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Researching women's private literature and archival documents
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What comes to mind when we hear that a friend or colleague is studying unpublished documents in a celebrated author's archive? We might assume that they are reading factual documents or, at the very least, straightforward accounts of the truth about someone or some event. But are they? Working in Women's Archives is a collection of essays that poses this question and offers a variety of answers. Any assumption readers may have about the archive as a neutral library space or about the archival document as a simple and pure text is challenged. In essays discussing ce
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; Locating Female Subjects in the Archives; Constructing Female Subjects in the Archive: A Reading of Three Versions of One Woman's Subjectivity; Researching Eighteenth-Century Maritime Women Writers: Deborah How Cottnam-A Case Study; ''A Dusting Off'': An Anecdotal Account of Editing the L. M. Montgomery Journals; Reading My Grandmother's Life from Her Letters: Constance Kerr Sissons from Adolescence to Engagement; Personal Papers: Putting Lives on the Line-Working with the Marian Engel Archive; An Epistolary Constellation: Trotsky, Kahlo, Birney; Afterword
- Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610925285
- 9781280925283
- 1280925280
- 9780889208711
- 0889208719
- 9781417534050
- 1417534052
- OCLC:
- 753479472
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