Life/Lines : Theorizing Women's Autobiography / Bella Brodzki and Celeste Schenck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brodzki, Bella, author.

Schenck, Celeste Marguerite, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's studies--Biographical methods.

Women's studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 p.) : 5 b&w photographs

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Autobiography raises a vital issue in feminist critical theory today: the imperative need to situate the female subject. Life/Lines, a collection of essays on women's autobiography, attempts to meet this need.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword / Brée, Germaine

Acknowledgments / Brodzki, Bella / Schenck, Celeste

Introduction / Brodzki, Bella / Schenck, Celeste

Part I. Positioning the Female Autobiographical Subject

1. Positioning the Female Autobiographical Subject The Other Voice: Autobiographies of Women Writers / Mason, Mary G.

2. Writing Fictions: Women's Autobiography in France / Miller, Nancy K.

3. Non-Autobiographies of "Privileged" Women: England and America / Heilbrun, Carolyn G.

4. Lesbian Identity and Autobiographical Difference[s] / Martin, Biddy

Part II. Colonized Subjects and Subversive Discourses

5. "Not Just a Personal Story": Women's Testimonios and the Plural Self / Sommer, Doris

6. In Other Words: Native American Women's Autobiography / Carr, Helen

7. Between Two Worlds: The Formation of a Turn-of-the-Century Egyptian Feminist / Ahmed, Leila

8. Race, Gender, and Cultural Context in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road / McKay, Nellie Y.

9. Structures of Liberation: Female Experience and Autobiographical Form in Quebec / Green, Mary Jean

Part III. Double Messages: Maternal Legacies! Mythographies

10. Revisions of Labor in Margaret Oliphant's Autobiography / Reimer, Gail Twersky

11. "A Nutmeg Nestled Inside Its Covering of Mace": Audre Lorde's Zami / Raynaud, Claudine

12. Mothers, Displacement, and Language in the Autobiographies of Nathalie Sarraute and Christa Wolf / Brodzki, Bella

13. Métissage, Emancipation, and Female Textuality in Two Francophone Writers / Lionnet, Françoise

Part IV. De-Limiting Genre: Other Autobiographical Acts

14. All of a Piece: Women's Poetry and Autobiography / Schenck, Celeste

15. Elisabeth to Meta: Epistolary Autobiography and the Postulation of the Self / Goodman, Katherine R.

16. Taking Her Life/History: The Autobiography of Charlotte Salomon / Felstiner, Mary Lowenthal

17. Seeing Subjects: Women Directors and Cinematic Autobiography / Portuges, Catherine

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5017-4556-5

OCLC:

1129181913