02715nam 2200697Ia 450 991081907140332120200520144314.01-280-92600-797866109260080-88920-941-30-585-46340-910.51644/9780889209411(CKB)111087028129568(EBL)685542(OCoLC)753479473(SSID)ssj0000236131(PQKBManifestationID)11205595(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000236131(PQKBWorkID)10165285(PQKB)10408649(OCoLC)52995788(MdBmJHUP)muse17981(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/qggp88(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/2/402677(MiAaPQ)EBC685542(MiAaPQ)EBC3243746(DE-B1597)667483(DE-B1597)9780889209411(EXLCZ)9911108702812956820010924d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRepossessing the world reading memoirs by contemporary women /Helen M. Buss1st ed.Waterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University Pressc20021 online resource (235 p.)Life writing seriesIncxludes index.0-88920-408-X Includes bibliographical references: p. 191-199.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.AutobiographyWomen authorsWomenBiographyHistory and criticismProse literature20th centuryHistory and criticismAutobiographyWomen authors.WomenHistory and criticism.Prose literatureHistory and criticism.809/.93592072Buss Helen M1132685MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819071403321Repossessing the world3999452UNINA