| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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W.E.B. Du Bois Institute.
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W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Series)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index. |
| Contents |
INTRODUCTION: Reading Autobiography: Strategies and Structures; 1 "Everybody's Zora": Visions, Setting, and Voice in Dust Tracks on a Road; 2 Commodities That Speak: Form and Transformation in Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; 3 In One Voice: Autobiographical Acts in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Hisaye Yarnamoto's "The Legend of Miss Sasagawara"; 4 People Made of Words: Identity and Identification in Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller and Adrienne Kennedy's People Who Led to My Plays. |
| Summary |
This text is a discussion of the ways that innovations of form and structure contain and bolster arguments for personhood. Organized thematically, with chapters focusing on central questions of form, this work pairs canonized texts with less well-known works. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American prose literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
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American prose literature -- Minority authors. |
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American prose literature. |
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American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American prose literature -- Women authors. |
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Autobiographical fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Autobiographical fiction, American. |
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Women and literature -- United States -- History.
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Women and literature. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Autobiography -- Women authors.
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Autobiography -- Women authors. |
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Minority women in literature.
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Minority women in literature. |
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Ethnic groups in literature.
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Ethnic groups in literature. |
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Minorities in literature.
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Minorities in literature. |
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Literary form.
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Literary form. |
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Electronic books.
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Computer network resources.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rodriguez, Barbara (Barbara Ruth). Autobiographical inscriptions. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 (DLC) 98051962 |
| ISBN |
1602563101 |
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9781602563100 |
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9780195123418 (acid-free paper) |
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0195123417 (acid-free paper) |
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1423760174 (electronic book) |
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9781423760177 (electronic book) |
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1280471476 |
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9781280471476 |
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0195123417 (acid-free paper) |
