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Type: educational
Status: I recommend
Author: Cynthis Huff
Tags: women community life-writing
Description: This collection of 15 essays with a critical introduction explores how women's life-writingThis collection of 15 essays with a critical introduction explores how women's life-writing reflects and shapes a community's values - whether that community is global, national, or local. The authors examine women's autobiographical texts from a variety of perspectives, including feminism, cultural studies, postmodernism, and New Historicism. The material analyzed includes novels, memoirs, autobiographies, web pages, online zines, letters, religious records, anthologies, and deportation narratives.
This volume was previously published as a special issue of the journal Prose Studies.
Contents:
1. The Community of 'Camp Sisters': Bonds of Support, Bonds of Subversion Deborah Lee Ames 2. Voices Lynn Bloom 3. Imagined Ancestral Communities of Displaced Australian Daughters: Lily Brett's Unintended Consequences and Evelyn Crawford's Over My Tracks Gay Breyley 4. 'Somewhere between Puerto Rico and New York': The Representation of Individual and Collective Identities in Esmeralda Santiago's When I was Puerto Rican and Almost a Woman Marta Vizcaya Echano 5. Reverse Migrations and Imagined Communities Susanna Egan and Manuela Constantino 6. We are the Web: Letter writing and the 1980s women's peace movement Margaretta Jolly 7. Consuming Lives, Performing Ethnicity: Female Asian American autobiographical acts on the web Lena Karlsson 8. Imagining a Hospitable Community in the Deportation and Emigration Narratives of Baltic Women Leena Kurvet-Kaosar 9. Dear (Embodied Reader: Life-Writing by Disabled Women) Susannah B. Mintz 10. Collaborative Life Writing as Ideology: The auto/biographies of Mary Howitt and Her Family Jeanne Perreault 11. 'As if someone was gazing upon me...': Unveiling the Sanctified Body in The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee, A Coloured Lady, Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel Jeryl Prescott 12. When is the Personal Political?: Autobiography, the anthology, and identity politics Jillian Sandell 13. Prei for me mi leue suster^D>: The Paradox of the Anchoritic 'Community' in Late Medieval England Michelle Sauer 14. 'The One Way I can Connect to You: Community, identity, and adolescent zinesters Jennifer Sinor
Series Information:
Prose Studies (this is a special issue of a Frank Cass journal)
Author Biography:
Cynthia Huff is the co-editor of Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women's Diaries (1996) and has published numerous articles in Victorian Review, Biography, Prose Studies, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and other journals. She is a Professor of English at Illinois State University.
Product Note:
This volume was previously published as a special issue of the journal Prose Studies.
Full Contributors:
Deborah Lee Ames, Palm Beach Atlantic University, USA Lynn Z. Bloom, University of Connecticut, USA Gay Breyley, University of Wollongong, Australia Marta Yuzcaya Echano, University of York, UK Susannah Egan, University of British Columbia, Canada Manuela Constantino, Margaretta Jolly, University of Exeter, UK Lena Karlsson, Leena Kurvet-Kaosar, Tartu University, Estonia Susannah Mintz, Skidmore College, USA Jeanne Perreault, University of Calgary, Canada Linda Peterson, Yale University, USA Jeryl Prescott, North Carolina School of the Arts, USA Jillian Sandell, University of California Berkeley, USA Michelle M. Sauer, Minot State University, USA
Jennifer Sinor, Utah State University, USA...
2005-09-23
