TY - BOOK AU - Smith,Sidonie TI - A poetics of women's autobiography: marginality and the fictions of self-representation SN - 0253345057 AV - PR756.A9 S65 1987 U1 - 820/.9/492 19 PY - 1987/// CY - Bloomington PB - Indiana University Press KW - Kingston, Maxine Hong. KW - English prose literature KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - Autobiography KW - Women KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - Self in literature KW - Marginality, Social, in literature KW - Women and literature KW - Autobiografía KW - Mujeres como autoras KW - Mujeres en Gran Bretaña KW - Biografía KW - Autobiografieën KW - gtt KW - Vrouwelijke auteurs KW - Engels KW - Prose anglaise KW - Histoire et critique KW - Autobiographie KW - Femmes KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Biographies KW - Femmes et littérature KW - Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature KW - Marginalité dans la littérature KW - Écrits de femmes anglais N1 - Includes index; Bibliography: p. 177-202; 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 UR - http://www.archive.org/details/poeticsofwomensa00smitrich UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL2740988M ER -