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Record Nr.

UNINA9910272352003321

Autore

Lionnet Françoise

Titolo

Autobiographical Voices : Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture / / Françoise Lionnet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cornell University Press, 2018

Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2018]

©1991

ISBN

9781501723100

1501723103

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 pages)

Collana

Reading Women Writing

Disciplina

920.72

Soggetti

Autobiography - Women authors - History and criticism

Women - Biography - History and criticism

Literature, Modern - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. The Politics and Aesthetics of Metissage -- Part I. Rereading the Past -- Part II. Creating a Tradition -- Conclusion -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.