Repossessing the world [[electronic resource] ] : reading memoirs by contemporary women / / by Helen M. Buss
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (235 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 809 |
| Soggetto topico: | Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism |
| Autobiography - Women authors | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A critical inquiry into women's use of the memoir. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Repossessing the world |
| ISBN: | 1-280-92600-7 |
| 9786610926008 | |
| 0-88920-941-3 | |
| 0-585-46340-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780348303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Life writing series.