A poetics of women's autobiography : [electronic resource] marginality and the fictions of self-representation / Sidonie Smith.
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TextPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1987.Description: ix, 211 p. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0253345057
- 9780253345059
- 0253204437 (pbk.)
- 9780253204431 (pbk.)
- English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Autobiography -- Women authors
- Women -- Great Britain -- Biography -- History and criticism
- Self in literature
- Marginality, Social, in literature
- Women and literature -- Great Britain
- Kingston, Maxine Hong. Woman warrior
- Autobiografía -- Mujeres como autoras
- Mujeres en Gran Bretaña -- Biografía
- Autobiografieën
- Vrouwelijke auteurs
- Engels
- Prose anglaise -- Histoire et critique
- Autobiographie
- Femmes -- Grande-Bretagne -- Biographies -- Histoire et critique
- Femmes et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne
- Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature
- Marginalité dans la littérature
- Écrits de femmes anglais -- Histoire et critique
- 820/.9/492 19
- PR756.A9 S65 1987
- 18.05
Bibliography: p. 177-202.
Includes index.
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.
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