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Autobiographical inscriptions : form, personhood, and the American woman writer of color / Barbara Rodriguez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rodriguez, Barbara (Barbara Ruth), author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American prose literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.
- American prose literature.
- American prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Autobiographical fiction, American--History and criticism.
- Autobiographical fiction, American.
- Women and literature--United States--History.
- Women and literature.
- Autobiography--Women authors.
- Autobiography.
- Minority women in literature.
- Ethnic groups in literature.
- Minorities in literature.
- Literary form.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This discusses the ways that innovations of form and structure contain and bolster arguments for personhood. Organized thematically, with chapters focusing on central questions of form, canonized texts are paired with less well-known works.
- Contents:
- Contents; INTRODUCTION: Reading Autobiography: Strategies and Structures; 1 ""Everybody's Zora"": Visions, Setting, and Voice in Dust Tracks on a Road; 2 Commodities That Speak: Form and Transformation in Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; 3 In One Voice: Autobiographical Acts in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Hisaye Yarnamoto's ""The Legend of Miss Sasagawara""; 4 People Made of Words: Identity and Identification in Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller and Adrienne Kennedy's People Who Led to My Plays
- CONCLUSION: Making Face, Making Race: Prosopopoeia, Autobiography, and Identity Construction in Cecile Pineda's FaceNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages ) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772320-9
- 1-280-47147-6
- 1-4237-6017-4
- 0-19-535257-2
- 1-60256-310-1
- OCLC:
- 567932956
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