Repossessing the world : reading memoirs by contemporary women /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Waterloo, Ont. :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
©2002.
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| Series: | Life writing series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Autobiocritical preface
- Memoir as a life-writing discourse
- Memoir with an attitude : one reader reads The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts
- Identity as a balancing act : memoirs' practice of non-sacrificial rituals of self-performance
- Dancing with our mothers : reading and writing memoirs as a mother and a daughter
- "Scenes of language" : trauma and the search for form in women's memoirs
- Joining heart and head : contemporary academic women's use of the memoir form
- Repossessing a relational autonomy that resists appropriation.
