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Repossessing the world : reading memoirs by contemporary women / / Helen M. Buss



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Autore: Buss Helen M Visualizza persona
Titolo: Repossessing the world : reading memoirs by contemporary women / / Helen M. Buss Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2002
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
Disciplina: 809/.93592072
Soggetto topico: Autobiography - Women authors
Women - History and criticism
Prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Note generali: Incxludes index.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references: p. 191-199.
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  Visualizza cluster
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.: 9910819071403321
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Serie: Life writing series.