Women, autobiography, theory: a reader
by Smith, Sidonie Watson, Julia
Women, Autobiography, Theory is the first comprehensive guide to the burgeoning field of women's autobiography, drawing into one volume the most significant theoretical discussions on women's life writing of the last two decades. The authoritative introduction by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson surveys writing about women's lives from the women's movement of the late 1960s to the present. It also relates theoretical positions in women's autobiography studies to postmodern, poststructuralist, po…
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- Full title :Women, autobiography, theory : a reader / edited by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson.
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Women, Autobiography, Theory is the first comprehensive guide to the burgeoning field of women's autobiography, drawing into one volume the most significant theoretical discussions on women's life writing of the last two decades. The authoritative introduction by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson surveys writing about women's lives from the women's movement of the late 1960s to the present. It also relates theoretical positions in women's autobiography studies to postmodern, poststructuralist, postcolonial, and feminist analyses. The essays from thirty-nine prominent critics and writers include many considered classics in this field. They explore narratives across the centuries and from around the globe, including testimonios, diaries, memoirs, letters, trauma accounts, prison narratives, coming-out stories, coming-of-age stories, and spiritual autobiographies. A list of more than two hundred women's autobiographies and a comprehensive bibliography of critical scholarship in women's autobiography provide invaluable information for scholars, teachers, and readers.
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- Publication Date:©1998.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Wisconsin Press
- Place of Publication:Madison
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1998.
The Physical Object
- Description:xi, 526 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0299158403, 9780299158408, 0299158446, 9780299158446, 0299156745, 9780299156749
- oclc:ocm37579849
- LC Classification:PS366.A88
- Dewey Decimal:818/.540809492072
Table of Contents
Autobiographical practices / Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson -- Experience / Joan W. Scott -- Women's autobiographical selves: theory and practice / Susan Stanford Friedman -- On confession / Rita Felski -- The narrative self: race, politics, and culture in Black American women's autobiography / Nellie Y. McKay -- Performativity, autobiographical practice, resistance / Sidonie Smith -- Woman skin deep: feminism and the postcolonial condition / Sara Suleri -- Autogynography:is the subject different? / Donna C. Stanton -- Authorizing the autobiographical / Shari Benstock -- Mothers, displacement, and language / Bella Brodzki -- The politics of subjectivity and the Ideology of genre / Felicity A. Nussbaum -- First-person plural: subjectivity and community in Native American women's autobiography / Hertha D. Sweet Wong -- Autobiographics / Leigh Gilmore -- Autography / transformation /asymmetry / Jeanne Perreault -- Sacred secrets: a strategy for survival / Doris Sommer -- Resisting autobiography: out-law genres and transnational feminist subjects / Caren Kaplan -- Introduction to a day at a time: diary literature of American women, from 1764 to 1985 / Margo Culley -- A feminist revisi…
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