Writing Selves : Contemporary Feminist Autography.
Title:
Writing Selves : Contemporary Feminist Autography.
Author:
Perreault, Jeanne.
ISBN:
9780816686711
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (166 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- One: Autography/Transformation/Asymmetry -- Two: Adrienne Rich: A Poetics of Subjectivity -- Three: Kate Millett's The Basement: Testimony of the Unspeakable -- Four: Patricia Williams's Alchemy: "my most precious property, I" -- Five: Selves: Intersecting -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
Why "autography"? Because there really is no genre for feminist self-writing. This is the territory, between autobiography and feminist thought, that Jeanne Perreault marks out. Looking to Audre Lorde's Cancer Journals, Kate Millet's The Basement, Adrienne Rich's later prose and poetry, and Patricia Williams's "diary," among other works, Perreault compellingly examines writing as a significant element in the processes of self-making.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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