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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 t
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Paperback , 544 pages
Published July 27th 1998 by University of Wisconsin Press
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This comprehensive collection into women's autobiography should not be missed. The lengthy (52 page, 2 column) introduction lays out the history, the theories, and the future of the field. The essays within fall into eight parts from agency to subjectivities and memories and sexualities. Essayists range from Margo Culley (editor of A Day at a Time ) and Helen Buss (New Historicism, also editor of Working in Women's Archives ) and Assia Djebar (author of Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade) to Judith B ...more
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I wonder what if I didn't find this reference book. It helps my final assignment a lot!! I used it for my final assignment, focusing on autobiographical novel using Maxine Hong Kingston's works/novels.
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Sidonie Smith is the Martha Guernsey Colby Collegiate Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan.
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