Acts of narrative resistance [[electronic resource] ] : women's autobiographical writings in the Americas / / Laura J. Beard |
Autore | Beard Laura J. <1962-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933522 |
Collana | American literatures initiative |
Soggetto topico |
Autobiography - Women authors
Autobiography - Political aspects Latin American prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism Latin American prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism Canadian prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism Canadian prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism Women - America - Biography - History and criticism Women in literature Biography as a literary form |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8139-3057-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""PART ONE: Addressing the Self: Autobiographical Metafiction""; ""1 The Mirrored Self: Helena Parente Cunha's Women between Mirrors""; ""2 The Self in Exile: Luisa Futoransky's Babelic Metatext""; ""PART TWO: From Self to Family to Nation: The Family Saga as an Autobiographical Genre""; ""3 Re-membering the Nation by Remembering the Family: Ana María Shua's The Book of Memories""; ""4 The Autobiographical Text as Memory Box: Nélida Piñon's The Republic of Dreams""
""PART THREE: Bearing Witness to the Self and the Community: Testimonial Works by Indigenous Women""""5 ""The Life of Bobbi Lee Is about Why We Must Talk"": Testimonial Literature as a Call to Action""; ""6 ""Part of Surviving Is through Remembering"": The Ethics and Politics of Life Narratives about Indian Residential School Experiences""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z"" |
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Acts of narrative resistance [[electronic resource] ] : women's autobiographical writings in the Americas / / Laura J. Beard |
Autore | Beard Laura J. <1962-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933522 |
Collana | American literatures initiative |
Soggetto topico |
Autobiography - Women authors
Autobiography - Political aspects Latin American prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism Latin American prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism Canadian prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism Canadian prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism Women - America - Biography - History and criticism Women in literature Biography as a literary form |
ISBN | 0-8139-3057-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""PART ONE: Addressing the Self: Autobiographical Metafiction""; ""1 The Mirrored Self: Helena Parente Cunha's Women between Mirrors""; ""2 The Self in Exile: Luisa Futoransky's Babelic Metatext""; ""PART TWO: From Self to Family to Nation: The Family Saga as an Autobiographical Genre""; ""3 Re-membering the Nation by Remembering the Family: Ana María Shua's The Book of Memories""; ""4 The Autobiographical Text as Memory Box: Nélida Piñon's The Republic of Dreams""
""PART THREE: Bearing Witness to the Self and the Community: Testimonial Works by Indigenous Women""""5 ""The Life of Bobbi Lee Is about Why We Must Talk"": Testimonial Literature as a Call to Action""; ""6 ""Part of Surviving Is through Remembering"": The Ethics and Politics of Life Narratives about Indian Residential School Experiences""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781996103321 |
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Autobiographical Voices : Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture / / Françoise Lionnet |
Autore | Lionnet Françoise |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 1989 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 258 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.93592 |
Soggetto topico |
Women and literature
Biography as a literary form Self in literature Literature, Modern - History and criticism Women - Biography - History and criticism Autobiography - Women authors |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910682546103321 |
Lionnet Françoise
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Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 1989 | ||
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Autobiography as activism [[electronic resource] ] : three Black women of the Sixties / / Margo V. Perkins |
Autore | Perkins Margo V |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (182 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.48/896073/00922 |
Collana | Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies Visionary women writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement |
Soggetto topico |
American prose literature - African American authors - History and criticism
African American women political activists - Biography - History and criticism American prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century African American women - Intellectual life - 20th century African Americans - Biography - History and criticism Autobiography - African American authors African American women in literature Autobiography - Women authors |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-45519-6
9786613455192 1-60473-735-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 ""I am We"": Black Women Activists Writing Autobiography; Chapter 2 Literary Antecedents in the Struggle for Freedom; Chapter 3 On Becoming: Activists' Reflections on Their Formative Experiences; Chapter 4 Autobiography as Political/Personal Intervention; Chapter 5 Gender and Power Dynamics in 1960's Black Nationalist Struggle; Chapter 6 Reading Intertextually: Black Power Narratives Then and Now; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457385203321 |
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Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2000 | ||
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Autobiography as activism [[electronic resource] ] : three Black women of the Sixties / / Margo V. Perkins |
Autore | Perkins Margo V |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (182 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.48/896073/00922 |
Collana | Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies Visionary women writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement |
Soggetto topico |
American prose literature - African American authors - History and criticism
African American women political activists - Biography - History and criticism American prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century African American women - Intellectual life - 20th century African Americans - Biography - History and criticism Autobiography - African American authors African American women in literature Autobiography - Women authors |
ISBN |
1-283-45519-6
9786613455192 1-60473-735-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 ""I am We"": Black Women Activists Writing Autobiography; Chapter 2 Literary Antecedents in the Struggle for Freedom; Chapter 3 On Becoming: Activists' Reflections on Their Formative Experiences; Chapter 4 Autobiography as Political/Personal Intervention; Chapter 5 Gender and Power Dynamics in 1960's Black Nationalist Struggle; Chapter 6 Reading Intertextually: Black Power Narratives Then and Now; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779200903321 |
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Before they could vote [[electronic resource] ] : American women's autobiographical writing, 1819-1919 / / edited by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | xii, 454 p |
Disciplina |
305.4092/273
B |
Altri autori (Persone) |
SmithSidonie
WatsonJulia <1945-> |
Collana | Wisconsin studies in autobiography |
Soggetto topico |
Women - United States
Women - United States - History - 19th century Women - United States - History - 20th century Women's studies - United States - Biographical methods Autobiography - Women authors |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-27036-2
9786612270369 0-299-22053-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452326403321 |
Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006 | ||
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Before they could vote : American women's autobiographical writing, 1819-1919 / / edited by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | xii, 454 p |
Disciplina |
305.4092/273
B |
Altri autori (Persone) |
SmithSidonie
WatsonJulia <1945-> |
Collana | Wisconsin studies in autobiography |
Soggetto topico |
Women - United States
Women - United States - History - 19th century Women - United States - History - 20th century Women's studies - United States - Biographical methods Autobiography - Women authors |
Soggetto genere / forma |
Autobiographies.
Primary sources. |
ISBN |
1-282-27036-2
9786612270369 0-299-22053-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : Living in public / Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson -- An authentic statement of the case and conduct of Rose Butler, who was tried, convicted, and executed for the crime of arson (1819) / Rose Butler -- A narrative of the life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (as told to James E. Seaver) (1824) / Mary Jemison -- The life and religious experience of Jarena Lee (1836) / Jarena Lee -- Selections from Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839 (1863) / Fanny Kemble -- Transcription of speech given at the Akron Women's Rights Convention, from the Anti-slavery Bugle (June 21, 1851) / Sojourner Truth -- Selections from "Youth," from Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852) / Margaret Fuller -- Testimony, given in Canada (1855) / Harriet Tubman -- A brief narrative of the life of Mrs. Adele M. Jewel (1869) / Adele M. Jewel -- Selections from her journals (1874/78) / M. Carey Thomas -- The Yakima affair, from Life among the Piutes : their wrongs and claims (1883) / Sarah Winnemucca -- An old woman and her recollections (as recorded by Thomas Savage) (1877) / Eulalia Pérez -- Beginning to work, from A New England girlhood (1889) / Lucy Larcom -- "Looking back on girlhood" (1892) / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The Club movement among colored women of America (1900) / Fannie Barrier Williams -- Sketches from The Atlantic monthly / Zitkala-Ša -- Nurslings of the sky, from The land of little rain (1903) / Mary Hunter Austin -- Mary MacLane meets the vampire on the isle of treacherous delights (1910) / Mary MacLane -- The promised land, from The promised land (1912) / Mary Antin -- Lives in The Independent and the question of race / Anonymous -- How I made my first big flight abroad : my flight across the English Channel (1912) / Harriet Quimby -- Autobiographical essays / Sui Sin Far -- Selections from Madeleine, an autobiography (1919) / "Madeleine." |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781832603321 |
Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006 | ||
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Belabored professions [[electronic resource] ] : narratives of African American working womanhood / / Xiomara Santamarina |
Autore | Santamarina Xiomara |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
Disciplina | 818/.408099287/08996073 |
Soggetto topico |
American prose literature - African American authors - History and criticism
American prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism American prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism Women and literature - United States - History - 19th century African American women - History and criticism African American women - Intellectual life - 19th century African American women in the professions - History African American women - Employment - History Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 19th century Autobiography - African American authors African American women in literature Autobiography - Women authors |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8078-7700-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Race, work, and literary authority in the Narrative of Sojourner Truth -- The view from below : menial labor and self-reliance in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig -- Enterprising women and the labors of femininity : Eliza Potter, Cincinnati hairdresser -- Behind the scenes of Black labor : Elizabeth Keckley and the scandal of publicity. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451525803321 |
Santamarina Xiomara
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005 | ||
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Belabored professions [[electronic resource] ] : narratives of African American working womanhood / / Xiomara Santamarina |
Autore | Santamarina Xiomara |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
Disciplina | 818/.408099287/08996073 |
Soggetto topico |
American prose literature - African American authors - History and criticism
American prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism American prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism Women and literature - United States - History - 19th century African American women - History and criticism African American women - Intellectual life - 19th century African American women in the professions - History African American women - Employment - History Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 19th century Autobiography - African American authors African American women in literature Autobiography - Women authors |
ISBN |
979-88-908791-1-0
0-8078-7700-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Race, work, and literary authority in the Narrative of Sojourner Truth -- The view from below : menial labor and self-reliance in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig -- Enterprising women and the labors of femininity : Eliza Potter, Cincinnati hairdresser -- Behind the scenes of Black labor : Elizabeth Keckley and the scandal of publicity. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777524603321 |
Santamarina Xiomara
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005 | ||
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The captain's widow of Sandwich [[electronic resource] ] : self-invention and the life of Hannah Rebecca Burgess, 1834-1917 / / Megan Taylor Shockley |
Autore | Shockley Megan Taylor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
Disciplina |
910.4/5
B |
Soggetto topico |
Ship captains' spouses - Massachusetts - Sandwich
Middle class women - Massachusetts - Sandwich Women - Massachusetts - Sandwich Seafaring life - Massachusetts - Sandwich - History - 19th century Women - Identity Autobiography - Women authors |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
1852
1856 1917 22-year-old Burgess Captains Challenger Crowell Hannah Massachusetts Megan Rebecca Sandwich Shockley Taylor Widow William Within captain constructed crossed died dying dysentery eleven embraced equator examines familys from history home husband learned legend marriage married navigate own proposals refused returned sail saved ship that three times town vessel wealthy where years |
ISBN |
0-8147-8652-9
0-8147-4129-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Author’s Note on the Journals -- Introduction -- 1. Rebecca’s World -- 2. Becoming the Captain’s Wife -- 3. Rebecca at Sea -- 4. Challenges and Transitions -- 5. A New Era, a New Narrative -- 6. Visible and Invisible -- 7. From Legacy to Legend -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458519003321 |
Shockley Megan Taylor
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New York, : New York University Press, c2010 | ||
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