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UNINA9910780348303321 |
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Autore |
Buss Helen M |
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Titolo |
Repossessing the world [[electronic resource] ] : reading memoirs by contemporary women / / by Helen M. Buss |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-92600-7 |
9786610926008 |
0-88920-941-3 |
0-585-46340-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (235 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism |
Autobiography - Women authors |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Autobiocritical preface -- Memoir as a life-writing discourse -- Memoir with an attitude : one reader reads The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts -- Identity as a balancing act : memoirs' practice of non-sacrificial rituals of self-performance -- Dancing with our mothers : reading and writing memoirs as a mother and a daughter -- "Scenes of language" : trauma and the search for form in women's memoirs -- Joining heart and head : contemporary academic women's use of the memoir form -- Repossessing a relational autonomy that resists appropriation. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A critical inquiry into women's use of the memoir. |
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