Mapping our selves: Canadian women's autobiography

by Buss, Helen M., (Helen Margaret)

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Title Statements

Full title :Mapping our selves : Canadian women's autobiography / Helen M. Buss.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1993.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Mcgill-Queen's University Press
Place of Publication:Montréal, Quebec
Language:eng
Publication Date:1993.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 237 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0773509755, 9780773509757
oclc:ocn472704201
LC Classification:PR9188.B87x 1993
Dewey Decimal:C810.9/49272

Pt. 1. Reading for an Alternate Tradition -- 1. Pioneer Women's Diaries and Journals: Letters Home/Letters to the Future -- 2. Pioneer Women's Memoirs: Preserving the Past/Rescuing the Self -- 3. Two Exemplary Tools: Moodie's Roughing It and Jameson's Studies and Rambles -- Pt. 2. On Becoming a Twentieth-Century Woman -- 4. Achieving Women/Achieving Womanhood -- 5. Literary Women: Finding "The Words to Say It" -- Pt. 3. Finding a Counter-Discourse -- 6. Gestures towards an Embodied Tradition.

Subjects

Autobiography -- Women authors Biographies Canada Canadian prose literature -- Women auth… Canadian prose literature (English) -- … Criticism, interpretation, etc Écrits de femmes autobiographiques Écrits de femmes canadiens -- Histoire … Femmes -- Biographies -- Canada Women Women -- Biography -- Canada