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1 online resource (300 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
Costerus,
0165-9618 ;
new ser., 199
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Costerus ; new ser., v. 199.
0165-9618
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) and index. |
Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Willa Muir; Brief Chronology; Chapter 1: The Writer and the Translator; Chapter 2: The Writer as Mother; Chapter 3: Belonging to the Universe; Margaret Laurence; Brief Chronology; Chapter 4: Motherhood as Gift and Trap; Chapter 5: The Dynamic Concept of Place; Chapter 6: The Craft of the Writer: Vulnerability and Power; Janet Frame; Brief Chronology; Chapter 7: A Place for the Self; Chapter 8: The Writer's Vocation; Chapter 9: In Search of Loneliness; Conclusion; Appendixes. |
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Appendix 1: Willa Muir's TranslationsAppendix 2: Interview with Professor Clara Thomas; Appendix 3: Archives Consulted; Bibliography; Index. |
Summary |
This book examines the literary construction of personal identity through autobiographical narratives by three significant writers analysed together for the first time: the Scottish Willa Muir (1890-1970), the Canadian Margaret Laurence (1926-1987), and the New Zealander Janet Frame (1924-2004). These apparently dissimilar authors suffered not only geographical, but also political marginality: they were women from the working-class or struggling middle-class, striving to be considered as professional writers, and emerging from countries that might be felt to be under the shadows of economic an. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Muir, Willa, 1890-1970 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Muir, Willa, 1890-1970. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Laurence, Margaret -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Laurence, Margaret. |
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Frame, Janet -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Frame, Janet. |
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Muir, Willa, 1890-1970. |
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Laurence, Margaret. |
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Frame, Janet. |
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Autobiography -- Women authors.
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Autobiography -- Women authors. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Fuentes-Vásquez, Carmen Luz, author. Dangerous writing. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2013 9789042036499 (OCoLC)829680094 |
ISBN |
9789401209175 (electronic book) |
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9401209170 (electronic book) |
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9789042036499 |
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9042036494 |
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