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
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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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
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 Butler (
Excitable Speech
and
Bodies That Matter
). I am not a scholar of women's studies so my knowledge of this topic is limited and basic (the authors listed are the names I recognized), but the words within this Reader are accessible even to me. It's a large book, but entirely worthy of the shelf space.
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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.