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Cover
Life/Lines
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I Positioning the Female Autobiographical Subject
1 The Other Voice: Autobiographies of Women Writers
2 Writing Fictions: Women's Autobiography in France
3 Non-Autobiographies of "Privileged" Women: England and America
4 Lesbian Identity and Autobiographical Difference[s]
II Colonized Subjects and Subversive Discourses
5 "Not Just a Personal Story": Women's Testimonios and the Plural Self
6 In Other Words: Native American Women's Autobiography
7 Between Two Worlds: The Formation of a Turn-of-the-Century Egyptian Feminist
8 Race, Gender, and Cultural Context in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road
9 Structures of Liberation: Female Experience and Autobiographical Form in Quebec
III Double Messages: Maternal Legacies/Mythographies
10 Revisions of Labor in Margaret Oliphant's Autobiography
11 "A Nutmeg Nestled Inside Its Covering of Mace": Audre Lorde's Zami
12 Mothers, Displacement, and Language in the Autobiographies of Nathalie Sarraute and Christa Wolf
13 Métissage, Emancipation, and Female Textuality in Two Francophone Writers
IV De-Limiting Genre: Other Autobiographical Acts
14 All of a Piece: Women's Poetry and Autobiography
15 Elisabeth to Meta: Epistolary Autobiography and the Postulation of the Self
16 Taking Her Life/History: The Autobiography of Charlotte Salomon
17 Seeing Subjects: Women Directors and Cinematic Autobiography
Contributors
Index.
Life/Lines
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I Positioning the Female Autobiographical Subject
1 The Other Voice: Autobiographies of Women Writers
2 Writing Fictions: Women's Autobiography in France
3 Non-Autobiographies of "Privileged" Women: England and America
4 Lesbian Identity and Autobiographical Difference[s]
II Colonized Subjects and Subversive Discourses
5 "Not Just a Personal Story": Women's Testimonios and the Plural Self
6 In Other Words: Native American Women's Autobiography
7 Between Two Worlds: The Formation of a Turn-of-the-Century Egyptian Feminist
8 Race, Gender, and Cultural Context in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road
9 Structures of Liberation: Female Experience and Autobiographical Form in Quebec
III Double Messages: Maternal Legacies/Mythographies
10 Revisions of Labor in Margaret Oliphant's Autobiography
11 "A Nutmeg Nestled Inside Its Covering of Mace": Audre Lorde's Zami
12 Mothers, Displacement, and Language in the Autobiographies of Nathalie Sarraute and Christa Wolf
13 Métissage, Emancipation, and Female Textuality in Two Francophone Writers
IV De-Limiting Genre: Other Autobiographical Acts
14 All of a Piece: Women's Poetry and Autobiography
15 Elisabeth to Meta: Epistolary Autobiography and the Postulation of the Self
16 Taking Her Life/History: The Autobiography of Charlotte Salomon
17 Seeing Subjects: Women Directors and Cinematic Autobiography
Contributors
Index.