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Feminism and autobiography : texts, theories, methods / Tess Coslett, Celia Lury and Penny Summerfield.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: TransformationsPublisher: London : Routledge, 2000Description: 280p. ; 16 cmISBN:
  • 0415232023(pbk.) :
  • 0415232015
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.42
Contents:
Part 1. Genre -- 1. Enforced Narratives: Stories of Another Self -- 2. From 'self-Made Women' to 'Women's Made-Selves'?: Audit Selves, Simulation and Surveillance in the Rise of Public Women -- 3. Textualisation of the Self and Gender Identity in the Life Story -- 4. Extending Autobiography: A Discussion of Sylvia Plath's (The Bell Jar -- Part 2. Intersubjectivity) -- 5. Composure and Performance in Oral History Testimony -- 6. Spellbound: Audience, Identity and Self in Black Women's Narrative Discourse -- 7. Our Mother's Daughters: Autobiographical Inheritance Through Stories of Gender and Class -- 8. Matrilineal Narratives Revisited -- 9. The Global Self: Narratives of Caribbean Migrant Women -- Part 3. Memory -- 10. Subjects in Time: Slavery and African-American Women's Autobiographies -- 11. Memory Frames: The Role of Concepts and Cognition in Telling Life Stories -- 12. Autobiographical Times -- 13. Circa 1959.
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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part 1. Genre -- 1. Enforced Narratives: Stories of Another Self -- 2. From 'self-Made Women' to 'Women's Made-Selves'?: Audit Selves, Simulation and Surveillance in the Rise of Public Women -- 3. Textualisation of the Self and Gender Identity in the Life Story -- 4. Extending Autobiography: A Discussion of Sylvia Plath's (The Bell Jar -- Part 2. Intersubjectivity) -- 5. Composure and Performance in Oral History Testimony -- 6. Spellbound: Audience, Identity and Self in Black Women's Narrative Discourse -- 7. Our Mother's Daughters: Autobiographical Inheritance Through Stories of Gender and Class -- 8. Matrilineal Narratives Revisited -- 9. The Global Self: Narratives of Caribbean Migrant Women -- Part 3. Memory -- 10. Subjects in Time: Slavery and African-American Women's Autobiographies -- 11. Memory Frames: The Role of Concepts and Cognition in Telling Life Stories -- 12. Autobiographical Times -- 13. Circa 1959.

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