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Title American women's autobiography : fea(s)ts of memory / edited, with an introduction, by Margo Culley.

Imprint Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c1992.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  810.9492072 Am35 1992    ---  Available
Description xiii, 329 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Wisconsin studies in American autobiography
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents What a piece of work is "woman"! / Margo Culley -- "Come and hear" / Kathleen M. Swaim -- Self and God in the early published memoirs of New England women / Ann Taves -- Resisting the gaze of embodiment / Sidonie Smith -- Political is the personal / Ann D. Gordon -- Utopia and anti-utopia in twentieth-century women's frontier autobiographies / Lynn Z. Bloom -- Gertrude Stein and the lesbian lie / Catherine R. Stimpson -- Orphanhood and "photo"-portraiture in Mary McCarthy's "Memories of a Catholic girlhood" / Janis Greve -- Dorothy Day and women's spiritual autobiography / Mary G. Mason -- Choosing sides, choosing lives / Arlyn Diamond -- "No laughing matter" / Nancy Walker -- Tradition of Chinese American women's life stories / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim -- Indian women's personal narrative / Kathleen Mullen Sands -- Listening to the secret mother / C. Margot Hennessy.
Subject American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Women authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Women -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Women and literature.
Autobiography -- Women authors.
Memory in literature.
Added Author Culley, Margo.
ISBN 0299132943 (pbk.) : $14.95
0299132900 : $42.50
Standard No. UKM b9306702

 
    
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