| Description |
xxxiv, 300 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Papers presented at the conference Representing lives: women and auto/biography on July 23-25, 1997 at Nottingham Trent University. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Alison Donnell, Pauline Polkey -- Is there life in the contact zone? Auto/biographical practices and the field of representation in writing past lives / Liz Stanley -- First person suspect, or, the enemy within ... / Julia Swindells -- Korean American national identity in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee -- Helena Grice -- Mary Kingsley: the female ethnographic self in writing / Lynnette Turner -- Traps slyly laid: professing autobiography in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig / R.J. Ellis -- Lorine Niedecker: auto/biography and poetry / Lorna Jowett -- Travel writing as autobiography: Rebecca West's journal of self-discovery / Vesna Goldsworthy -- 'My poor private voice': Virginia Woolf and auto/biography / Anna Snaith -- The textual contract: distinguishing autobiography from the novel / Tonya Blowers -- Staging our selves / Elaine Aston -- Performance and pedagogy: the 'signifying monkey' and the educative I/eye / Nike Imoru -- Viglen's revenge / Alison Oddey. |
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Tupperware ladies: a story of women and tupperware / Vanessa Gill-Brown. |
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The discourse of selfhood: oral autobiographies as narrative sites for constructions of identity / Erzsebet Barat -- From shaping imperialism to sharing imprisonment: the politics of the personal in South African female missionary biography / Deborah Gaitskell -- Constructing the subject? Emmy Ball-Hennings's autobiographical texts / Christiane Schonfeld -- 'My mind on paper': Anne Lister and the construction of lesbian identity / Anira Rowanchild -- Promoting herself: the respresentational strateiges of Georgina Weldon / Helen Nicholson -- Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928): suffragette, militant feminist and champion of womanhood / June Purvis -- 'The narrow margin of long days of toil'" class and education in the writings of Ruth Slate / T.G. Ashplant -- One, two, three: Sylvia Plath's verse dramas / Nicola Shaughnessy -- Double vision: mother(s) in Simone De Beauvoir's memoirs of a dutiful daughter and a very easy death / Alison Fell. |
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The autobiographical voice in Lily Braun's fiction / Nicola Brice -- Auto/biography/auto-mythology: Mina Loy's Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose / Alex Goody. |
| Subject |
English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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English prose literature -- Women authors. |
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Autobiography -- Women authors -- Congresses.
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Autobiography -- Women authors. |
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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American literature -- Women authors. |
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Women -- Biography -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Women -- Biography. |
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Women and literature -- English-speaking countries -- Congresses.
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Women and literature. |
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English-speaking countries. |
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Self in literature -- Congresses.
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Self in literature. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Donnell, Alison, 1966-
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Polkey, Pauline, 1958-
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| ISBN |
0312226675 cloth |
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9780312226671 cloth |
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0333750764 |
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9780333750766 |
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