De/Colonizing the Subject surveys women's autobiographical practices as they have arisen within and confronted the contexts of colonization and oppression. Challenging a universalism that reduces whole cultures to contained stereotypes and persons to cult.
Challenging the prevailing universalism that reduces whole cultures to contained stereotypes and persons to cultural representations, "De/Colonizing the Subject" frames the newest frontier of critical investigation -- colonial and postcolonial autobiography of the embodies subje…
In this book, Suzette A. Henke finds evidence that women often use writing in order to heal the wounds of psychological trauma. She terms this method "scriptotherapy," the process of writing out and writing through traumatic experience in the mode of therapeutic re-enactment. Sh…
In this book, Suzette A. Henke finds evidence that women often use writing in order to heal the wounds of psychological trauma. She terms this method "scriptotherapy," the process of writing out and writing through traumatic experience in the mode of therapeutic re-enactment. Sh…
Feminism and autobiography
by Summerfield, Penny, Lury, Celia, Coslett, Tess
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