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

• Autore: Buss Helen M
• 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
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Life writing series.