American Women's Autobiography: Fea(s)ts of MemoryMargo Culley Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1992 - 329 Seiten This is the first collection of essays to focus exclusively on the contribution of American women to the writing of autobiography. The Authors trace traditions of women's life-writing through three and a half centuries, from the narratives of Puritan women to contemporary multicultural literature. Contributors to the volume are major scholars in their fields: Sidonie Smith, Catharine Stimpson, Ann Gordon, Mary Mason, Nancy Walker, Kathleen Sands, Arlyn Diamond, and others whose essays all appear here for the first time. |
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Womens Puritan Evidences | 32 |
Self and God in the Early Published Memoirs | 57 |
Womens Autobiography | 75 |
Two Autobiographies | 111 |
Utopia and AntiUtopia in TwentiethCentury Womens | 128 |
Gertrude Stein and the Lesbian Lie | 152 |
Orphanhood and PhotoPortraiture in Mary McCarthys | 167 |
Dorothy Day and Womens Spiritual Autobiography | 185 |
Womens Autobiographies | 218 |
The WASPS Climb Down | 232 |
Voices Past and Present | 268 |
Reading John Edgar | 295 |
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