Memoirs from Away [[electronic resource] ] : A New Found Land Girlhood / / Helen M. BussMargaret Clarke

• Autore: Buss Helen M (Helen Margaret)
• Pubblicazione: Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (169 p.)
• Disciplina: 818.5409
• Soggetto topico: Écrivains canadiens-anglais - 20e siecle; Authors, Canadian (English) - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador Biographies; Newfoundland and Labrador Biography
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; People Live Here: Imagine That; War: Mother's Child; Peace: Daddy's Girl; Avalon: Knowing My Place; School: Losing Mary Lou; Finding Sally; History and Politics: My Brother Dave, His Friend Sid and Louis St. Laurent; Postscript
• Sommario/riassunto: How does the imagination entwine the shreds of memory of family, place and culture to root a self in the fluid experience of the present? Daughter, wife, mother, teacher, writer and feminist academic, Helen M. Buss / Margaret Clarke has lived in many parts of Canada and writes from a life of multiple perspectives full of contradictory loyalties and obligations, of opposing histories and identities. For this woman, whose sense of a unified identity is so tenuous that she even writes under two names, writing memoirs becomes the way to bring together the diverse strands of her
• Titolo autorizzato: Memoirs from Away
• ISBN: 1-299-31299-3; 0-88920-870-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154730503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Life writing ; ; 6