Representing Lives: Women and Auto/biography - Rilegato

Donnell, Alison; Polkey, Pauline

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0333750764 ISBN 13: 9780333750766

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Riassunto

Representing Lives: Women and Auto/biography is an eclectic and comprehensive collection of essays, exploring contemporary issues and debates concerning women's auto-biographical representations from a range of disciplinary perspectives. With authoritative contributions from a number of prominent figures in the field of women's auto/biography, as well as innovative new voices, this volume offers a broad and contemporary lens on the issues and debates relevant to the act of representing women's lives. Drawing on a variety of theoretical frameworks and discussing theatre, literature, popular culture and women in history, these essays help to map out some of the new intellectual spaces inhabited by feminist scholarship in the 1990s.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

T. G. ASHPLANT teaches Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores University ELAINE ASTON Senior Lecturer, Theatre Studies, Loughborough University ERZSÉBET BARAT Lecturer, Linguistics and Gender Studies, Attila Jozsef University, Szeged, Hungary NICOLA BRICE Birbeck College, University of London TONYA BLOWERS Lecturer, English Studies, Oxford Brookes University R. J. ELLIS Reader in English and American Literature, Nottingham Trent University ALISON FELL Department of French Studies, University of Birmingham DEBORAH GAITSKELL Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies VANESSA GILL-BROWN Lecturer in Design Studies, Nottingham Trent University VESNA GOLDSWORTHY Lecturer in English Literature, Birbeck College, University of London ALEX GOODY Ph.D. University of Leeds HELENA GRICE teaches at University of Wales, Aberystwyth NIKE IMORU Lecturer in Drama, University of Hull LORNA JOWETT Lecturer in American Studies, Nene University College, Northampton HELEN NICHOLSON Department of Drama, University of Manchester ALISON ODDEY Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, University of Kent JUNE PURVIS Professor of Women's and Gender History, University of Portsmouth ANIRA ROWANCHILD Literature Department, The Open University CHRISTIANE SCHÖNFELD Lecturer, University of Wales, Lampeter NICOLA SHAUGHNESSY Senior Lecturer in Drama and English, University College, Worcester ANNA SNAITH Lecturer in English, Anglia Polytechnic University LIZ STANLEY Professor of Sociology, Director of Women's Studies, University of Manchester JULIA SWINDELLS Director of English Studies, Homerton College, Cambridge LYNNETTE TURNER Lecturer in English, Oxford Brookes University.

Contenuti:

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
Keynote Address; L.Stanley
PART I: PLACING THE SUBJECT
First Person Suspect, or, The Enemy Within...; J.Swindells
Korean American National Identity in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee; H.Grice
Mary Kingsley: The Female Ethnographic Self in Writing; L.Turner
PART II: REVISING GENRES
Traps Slyly Laid: Professing Autobiography in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig; R.J.Ellis
Lorine Niedecker: Auto-biography and Poetry; L.Jowett
Travel Writing in Autobiography: Rebecca West's Journey of Self-Discovery; V.Goldsworthy
'My Poor Private Voice': Virginia Woolf and Auto/biography; A.Snaith
Distinguishing Autobiography From the Novel; T.Blowers
PART III: STAGING THE SELF
Staging Our Selves; E.Aston
Performance and Pedagogy: The 'Signifying Monkey' and the Educative I/Eye; N.Imoru
Viglen's Revenge ; A.Oddey
PART IV: (AUTO)BIOGRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS
Tupperware Ladies; V.Gill-Brown
The Discourse of Selfhood: Oral Autobiographies as Narrative Sites for Constructions of Identity; E.Barát
From Shaping Imperialism to Sharing Imprisonment: The Politics of the Personal in South African Female Missionary Biography; D.Gaitskell
Constructing the Subject? Emmy Ball-Henning's Autobiographical Texts; C.Schönfeld
PART V: RECOVERING LIVES - REVISING HISTORY
'My Mind on Paper': Anne Lister and the Construction of Lesbian Identity; A.Rowanchild
Promoting the Self: The Representational Strategies of Georgina Weldon; H.Nicholson
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928): Suffragette, Militant Feminist and Champion of Womanhood; J.Purvis
'The Narrow Margin of Long Days of Toil': Class and Education in the Writings of Ruth Slate; T.G.Ashplant
PART VI: MATRILINEALITY
One, Two, Three: Sylvia Plath's Verse Dramas; N.Shaughnessy
Double Vision: Mother(s) in Simone De Beauvoir's Mémoirs d'une Jeunne Fille Rangée (Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter) and Une Mort Trés Douce (A Very Easy Death); A.Fell
The Autobiographical Voice in Lily Braun's Fiction; N.Brice
Auto/biography - Auto/Mythology: Mina Loy's Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose; A.Goody
Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0333750764
• ISBN 13: 9780333750766
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 336