02457oam 22006014a 450 991045600700332120210117151336.01-280-92600-797866109260080-88920-941-30-585-46340-9(CKB)111087028129568(EBL)685542(OCoLC)753479473(SSID)ssj0000236131(PQKBManifestationID)11205595(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000236131(PQKBWorkID)10165285(PQKB)10408649(OCoLC)52995788(MdBmJHUP)muse17981(MiAaPQ)EBC685542(MiAaPQ)EBC3243746(EXLCZ)9911108702812956820120411e20122002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRepossessing the World[electronic resource] Reading Memoirs by Contemporary Women /by Helen M. BussWaterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University Pressc20021 online resource (235 p.)Life writing seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-88920-408-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index.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.A critical inquiry into women's use of the memoir.Life writing series.Literature, Modern20th centuryHistory and criticismAutobiographyWomen authorsElectronic books. Literature, ModernHistory and criticism.AutobiographyWomen authors.809Buss Helen M865803MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910456007003321Repossessing the World2053072UNINA