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Title American women's autobiography : fea(s)ts of memory / edited, with an introduction, by Margo Culley.

Publication Info. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [1992]
©1992

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  810.9492 A512A    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 329 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Wisconsin studies in American autobiography
Wisconsin studies in American autobiography.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents What a piece of work is "woman"! An introduction / Margo Culley -- "Come and hear": women's Puritan evidences / Kathleen M. Swaim -- Self and God in the early published memoirs of New England women / Ann Taves -- Resisting the gaze of embodiment: women's autobiography in the nineteenth century / Sidonie Smith -- The political is the personal: two autobiographies of women suffragists / Ann D. Gordon -- Utopia and anti-utopia in twentieth-century women's frontier autobiographies / Lynn Z. Bloom -- Gertrude Stein and the lesbian lie / Catherine R. Stimpson -- Orphanhood and "photo"-portraiture in Mary McCarthy's "Memories of a Catholic girlhood / Janis Greve -- Dorothy Day and women's spiritual autobiography / Mary G. Mason -- Choosing sides, choosing lives: women's autobiographies of the civil rights movement / Arlyn Diamond -- "No laughing matter": the WASPs climb down / Nancy Walker -- The tradition of Chinese American women's life stories: thematics of race and gender in Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese daughter and Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim -- Indian women's personal narrative / Kathleen Mullen Sands -- Listening to the secret mother: reading John Edgar Wideman's Brothers and keepers / C. Margot Hennessy.
Subject American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Women authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Women -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Autobiography -- Women authors.
Memory in literature.
Added Author Culley, Margo.
ISBN 0299132900
0299132943 paperback
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