LEADER 03677nam 2200553 a 450 001 9910786875603321 005 20230803030307.0 010 $a94-012-0917-0 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401209175 035 $a(CKB)2670000000372201 035 $a(EBL)1187352 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000906683 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12466318 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000906683 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10844521 035 $a(PQKB)11736253 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1187352 035 $a(OCoLC)829680094 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401209175 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1187352 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10698704 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL569549 035 $a(OCoLC)851970691 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000372201 100 $a20130530d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDangerous writing$b[electronic resource] $ethe autobiographies of Willa Muir, Margaret Laurence and Janet Frame /$fCarmen Luz Fuentes-Va?squez 210 $aAmsterdam $cRodopi$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (296 p.) 225 1 $aCosterus ;$vnew ser., 199 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-3649-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- THE WRITER AND THE TRANSLATOR -- THE WRITER AS MOTHER -- BELONGING TO THE UNIVERSE -- MOTHERHOOD AS GIFT AND TRAP -- THE DYNAMIC CONCEPT OF PLACE -- THE CRAFT OF THE WRITER: VULNERABILITY AND POWER -- APLACE FOR THE SELF -- THE WRITER?S VOCATION -- IN SEARCH OF LONELINESS -- CONCLUSION -- WILLA MUIR?S TRANSLATIONS: (In order of publication, followed in parenthesis by title of the original work and date of its publication.) -- INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR CLARA THOMAS -- ARCHIVES CONSULTED -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX. 330 $aThis book examines the literary construction of personal identity through autobiographical narratives by three significant writers analysed together for the first time: the Scottish Willa Muir (1890-1970), the Canadian Margaret Laurence (1926-1987), and the New Zealander Janet Frame (1924-2004). These apparently dissimilar authors suffered not only geographical, but also political marginality: they were women from the working-class or struggling middle-class, striving to be considered as professional writers, and emerging from countries that might be felt to be under the shadows of economic and political world powers such as England and the United States. During their lifetimes, they exerted themselves to overcome prejudices about class, gender and ethnicity. They experienced war and the post-war era, and lived through most of the twentieth century, being accurate witnesses and critics of their times. As it discusses major writers who are iconic for the development of the literatures of their respective countries, this book also attracts readers who are interested in learning more about the lives of these remarkable women, the way their socio-historical and geographical circumstances affected their writing and how they expressed such concerns in their autobiographies and other fictional and non-fictional works, besides considering them in relation to contemporary women writers ?and autobiographers? who underwent similar experiences. 410 0$aCosterus ;$vnew ser., v. 199. 676 $a820.935 700 $aFuentes-Va?squez$b Carmen Luz$01532400 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786875603321 996 $aDangerous writing$93778536 997 $aUNINA