Author: Susan Neunzig CahillPublisher: Perennial
ISBN: 9780060969981
Category : American prose literature
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
Gathers selections from the autobiographical writings of modern American women authors
Writing Women's Lives
Author: Susan Neunzig CahillPublisher: Perennial
ISBN: 9780060969981
Category : American prose literature
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
Gathers selections from the autobiographical writings of modern American women authors
Writing a Woman's Life
Author: Carolyn G. HeilbrunPublisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393026016
Category : Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Traces and redefines the lives of noted women using a new and distinctly feminine voice and language, thereby giving equal weight to the ambitions and choices of women
The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States
Author: Linda Wagner-MartinPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195132458
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
"A sumptuous selection of short fiction and poetry. . . . Its invitation to share the passion of women's voices characterizes the entire volume."--"USA Today."
Lives beyond Borders
Author: Ina C. SeethalerPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438486219
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
A cross-cultural, comparative study of contemporary life writing by women who migrated to the United States from Mexico, Ghana, South Korea, and Iran, Lives beyond Borders broadens and deepens critical work on immigrant life writing. Ina C. Seethaler investigates how these autobiographical texts—through genre mixing, motifs of doubling, and other techniques—challenge stereotypes, social hierarchies, and the supposed fixity of identity and lend literary support to grassroots social justice efforts. Seethaler's approach to literary analysis is both interdisciplinary and accessible. While Lives beyond Borders draws on feminist theory, critical race theory, and disability and migration studies, it also uses stories to engage and interest readers in issues related to migration and social change. In so doing, the book reevaluates the purpose, form, and audience of immigrant life writing.
Only the Women are Burning
Author: Nancy BurkePublisher: Apprentice House
ISBN: 9781627202893
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Three women are lost in a single morning, one at a commuter train, one at a school, one while walking her dog in the woods. The police think the women are making some kind of political statement by setting themselves on fire....maybe members of a cult. But Cassandra knows better. You won't rest until Cassandra, a mom and former anthropologist, solves the mystery of these fiery deaths. Part mystery, part science fiction, part a suburban domestic novel, Only the Women are Burning asks important questions about women in contemporary suburban lives.
Subject to Biography
Author: Elisabeth Young-BruehlPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674853713
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl illuminates the psychological and intellectual demands writing biography makes on the biographer and explores the complex and frequently conflicted relationship between feminism and psychoanalysis. She considers what remains valuable in Sigmund Freud's work, and what areas - theory of character, for instance - must be rethought to be useful for current psychoanalytic work, for feminist studies, and for social theory. Psychoanalytic theory used for biography, she argues, can yield insights for psychoanalysis itself, particularly in the understanding of creativity.
Contemporary French Women's Writing
Author: Shirley Ann JordanPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039103157
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In the 1990s the French literary arena was enlivened by the emergence of a new generation of women writers. This book selects six of its most distinctive voices and addresses important questions about the very new in French women's writing. What are young women choosing to write about? What do they tell us about changing perceptions of feminine identities? What does it mean to write (and to read) as women at the start of the new millennium? An introductory chapter explores key issues such as the woman writer in the public imagination and continuity and change within French women's writing since the 1970s. It also highlights thematic threads which recur across the work of the authors studied: history and time, wandering and exile, self and other, the body and sexuality and writing and telling. The remaining chapters propose productive approaches to the fictional worlds of Marie Darrieussecq, Virginie Despentes, Marie Ndiaye, Agnès Desarthe, Lorette Nobécourt and Amélie Nothomb through close readings of their most challenging, popular or telling texts. They focus on perennial preoccupations in women's writing which are given new treatment by these writers and discuss important developments such as uses of the pornographic, myth and fairy tale and parody and irony in new women's writing.
Women's Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland
Author: Julie A. EckerlePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803299974
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Women’s Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland provides an original perspective on both new and familiar texts in this first critical collection to focus on seventeenth-century women’s life writing in a specifically Irish context. By shifting the focus away from England—even though many of these writers would have identified themselves as English—and making Ireland and Irishness the focus of their essays, the contributors resituate women’s narratives in a powerful and revealing landscape. This volume addresses a range of genres, from letters to book marginalia, and a number of different women, from now-canonical life writers such as Mary Rich and Ann Fanshawe to far less familiar figures such as Eliza Blennerhassett and the correspondents and supplicants of William King, archbishop of Dublin. The writings of the Boyle sisters and the Duchess of Ormonde—women from the two most important families in seventeenth-century Ireland—also receive a thorough analysis. These innovative and nuanced scholarly considerations of the powerful influence of Ireland on these writers’ construction of self, provide fresh, illuminating insights into both their writing and their broader cultural context.
Romantic women's life writing
Author: Susan CivalePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526101289
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book explores how the publication of women’s life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century. It provides case studies of Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson and Mary Hays, four writers whose names were caught up in debates about the moral and literary respectability of publishing the ‘private’. Focusing on gender, genre and authorship, this study examines key works of life writing by and about these women, and the reception of these texts. It argues for the importance of life writing—a crucial site of affective and imaginative identification—in shaping authorial reputation and afterlife. The book ultimately constructs a fuller picture of the literary field in the long nineteenth century and the role of women writers and their life writing within it.
Women's Life Writing and Imagined Communities
Author: Cynthia Anne HuffPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415372206
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Recognising the great legacy of women's life writings, this book draws on a wealth of sources to critically examine the impact of these writings on our communities.