Women, Autobiography, Theory

Author: Sidonie Smith
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299158446
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 546

Book Description
The first comprehensive guide to the burgeoning field of women's autobiography. Essays from 39 prominent critics and writers explore narratives across the centuries and from around the globe. A list of more than 200 women's autobiographies and a comprehensive bibliography provide invaluable information for scholars, teachers, and readers.

The Private Self

Author: Shari Benstock
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807842188
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
This collection of twelve essays discusses the principles and practices of women's autobiographical writing in the United States, England, and France from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Employing feminist and poststructuralist methodologies, t

Feminism & Autobiography

Author: Tess Coslett
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134573626
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Featuring essays by leading feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines, this key text explores the latest developments in autobiographical studies. The collection is structured around the inter-linked concepts of genre, inter-subjectivity and memory. Whilst exemplifying the very different levels of autobiographical activity going on in feminist studies, the contributions chart a movement from autobiography as genre to autobiography as cultural practice, and from the analysis of autobiographical texts to a preoccupation with autobiography as method.

Women and Autobiography

Author: Martine Watson Brownley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842027021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
An overview of women's autobiography, providing historical background and contemporary criticism along with selections from a range of autobiographies by women. It seeks to provide a broad introduction to the major questions dominating autobiographical scholarship today.

Autobiographics

Author: Leigh Gilmore
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801480614
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
In the first comprehensive feminist critique of autobiography as a genre, Leigh Gilmore incorporates writings that have not up to now been considered part of the autobiographical tradition. Offering subtle and perceptive readings of a wide variety of texts-- from the confessions of medieval mystics to contemporary works by Chicana and lesbian writers-- she identifies an innovative practice of "autobiographics" which covers the entire spectrum of women's self-representation.

De-Colonizing the Subject

Author: Sidonie Smith
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452902542
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518

Book Description

Interfaces

Author: Sidonie Smith
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472068142
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 500

Book Description
Charts the ways that woman artists have represented themselves and their life stories

Women's Lives/Women's Times

Author: Trev Lynn Broughton
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791497704
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
Women's Lives/Women's Times reflects the growing interest in life-writing as a basis for both feminist theorizing and women-centered education. It discusses the many ways in which the study of autobiography can contribute to the theory, practice, and politics of women's studies as curriculum, and to feminist theory more generally. This volume is concerned with the application of theory to text—particularly with the assumptions and discourses of postmodernism—but also in exploring how general theories of the subject do not always fit comfortably with the specifics of autobiographical writing. It also recognizes the challenge women's autobiography offers to theory, taking us, in its complex weave of the personal, the political, and the theoretical, beyond the usual generic and disciplinary boundaries.

Life/Lines

Author: Bella Brodzki
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501745565
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 383

Book Description
Autobiography raises a vital issue in feminist critical theory today: the imperative need to situate the female subject. Life/Lines, a collection of essays on women's autobiography, attempts to meet this need.

The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory

Author: Ellen Rooney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139826638
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 44

Book Description
Feminism has dramatically influenced the way literary texts are read, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary theory has deliberately transgressed traditional boundaries between literature, philosophy and the social sciences in order to understand how gender has been constructed and represented through language. This lively and thought-provoking Companion presents a range of approaches to the field. Some of the essays demonstrate feminist critical principles at work in analysing texts, while others take a step back to trace the development of a particular feminist literary method. The essays draw on a range of primary material from the medieval period to postmodernism and from several countries, disciplines and genres. Each essay suggests further reading to explore this field further. This is the most accessible guide available both for students of literature new to this developing field, and for students of gender studies and readers interested in the interactions of feminism, literary criticism and literature.