A poetics of women's autobiography :

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Smith, Sidonie. A poetics of women's autobiography : marginality and the fictions of self-representation / Sidonie Smith. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1987.
ix, 211 p. ; 25 cm. Includes index. Content notes : Autobiography criticism and the problematics of gender -- Renaissance humanism and the misbegotten man : a tension of discourses in the emergence of autobiography -- Woman's story and the engenderings of self-representation -- The Book of Margery Kempe : this creature's unsealed life -- The ragged rout of self : Margaret Cavendish's True relation and the heroics of self-disclosure -- A Narrative of the life of Mrs. Charlotte Clarke : the transgressive daughter and the masquerade of self-representation -- Harriet Martineau's Autobiography : the repressed desire of life like a man's -- Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman warrior : filiality and woman's autobiographical storytelling. 0253345057 9780253345059 0253204437 (pbk.) 9780253204431 (pbk.) * Kingston, Maxine Hong. * English prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism. Autobiography - Women authors. Women - Biography - History and criticism. - Great Britain Self in literature. Marginality, Social, in literature. Women and literature - Great Britain. Autobiografía - Mujeres como autoras. Mujeres en Gran Bretaña - Biografía. Autobiografieën. Vrouwelijke auteurs. Engels. Prose anglaise - Histoire et critique. Autobiographie. Femmes - Biographies - Histoire et critique. - Grande-Bretagne Femmes et littérature - Grande-Bretagne. Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature. Marginalité dans la littérature. Écrits de femmes anglais - Histoire et critique.