| Description |
xi, 526 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Wisconsin studies in American autobiography |
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Wisconsin studies in American autobiography.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"A selected list of women's autobiographies": pages 477-484. |
| 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 revision of new historicism to give fuller readings of women's private writing / Helen M. Buss -- Female Rhetorics / Patricia Meyer Spacks -- Stories / Caroly Kay Steedman --Literary domesticity and women writers' subjectivities/ Mary Jean Corbett -- The literary standard, working-class autobiography, and gender / Regenia Gagnier |
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The construction of the self in U.S. latina autobiographies / Lourdes Torres -- Autobiography, ethnography, and history: a model for reading / Anne E. Goldman -- Immigrant autobriography: some questions of definition and approach / Sau-ling Cynthia Wong -- The other voice; autobiographies of women writiers / Mary G. Mason -- The politics and aesthetics of metissage / Francoise Lionnet -- forbidden gaze, severed sound / Assia Djebar -- Speaking in tongues: dialogics, dialectics, and the Black woman writer's literary tradition / Mae Gwendolyn Henderson -- The recovery of memory, fantasy, and desire in women's trauma stories: feminist approaches to sexual abuse and psychotherapy / Janice Haaken -- Introduction to Bodies That Matter / Judith Butler -- Lesbian identity and autobiographical difference(s) / Biddy Martin -- Unspeakable differences: the politics of gender in Lesbian and heterosexual women's autobiographies / Julia Watson -- Mystical bodies and the dialogics of vision / Laurie A. Finke -- Autobiography, bodies, manhood / Shirley Neuman -- Writing autobiography / Bell Hooks -- autobiographical manifestos / Sidonie Smith Semiotics, experience, and the material self: an inquiry into the subject of the contemporary Asian woman writer / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- From the women's prison: thris world women's narratives of prison / Barbara Harlow -- Teaching Autobiography /Nancy K. Miller -- The way in / Nancy Mairs. |
| Subject |
American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Women authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Women -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History.
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Autobiography -- Women authors.
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| Added Author |
Smith, Sidonie.
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Watson, Julia, 1945-
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| ISBN |
0299158403 alkaline paper |
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9780299158408 alkaline paper |
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0299158446 paper alkaline paper |
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9780299158446 paper alkaline paper |
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