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The Tradition of Women's Autobiography from Antiquity to the Present

Author : Estelle C. Jelinek
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780805790214
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Tradition of Women's Autobiography from Antiquity to the Present written by Estelle C. Jelinek and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ground-breaking literary history, Estelle Jelinek traces startling consistencies in the way women have written about their lives from an early Roman memoir to contemporary American autobiographies. In fact, Jelinek establishes a distinctive tradition of women's autobiography that differs remarkably from men's autobiography in content, narrative form, and projected self-image.For all those interested in literature, history, and women's studies, The Tradition of Women's Autobiography challenges us to reevaluate the art of autobiography, enriching and expanding the genre's possibilities to include a women's tradition whose respected place in the literary history of the genre is long overdue.

The Tradition of Women's Autobiography

Author : Estelle C. Jelinek
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462806473
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book The Tradition of Women's Autobiography written by Estelle C. Jelinek and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-03-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Tradition of Women's Autobiography

Author : Estelle C. Jelinek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608389196
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book The Tradition of Women's Autobiography written by Estelle C. Jelinek and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Margaret Cavendish

Author : Emma L. E. Rees
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719060724
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Margaret Cavendish written by Emma L. E. Rees and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Cavendish was the most extraordinary seventeenth-century Englishwoman, refusing to be silent when exiled by the Crowmellian regime, she fought to make her voice heard through her fascinating publications.

Women and the Autobiographical Impulse

Author : Barbara Caine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350237639
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Women and the Autobiographical Impulse written by Barbara Caine and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forming a critical introduction to the history of women's autobiography from the mid 18th-century to the present, this book analyses the most important changes in women's autobiography, exploring their motivation, context, style, and the role of life experiences. Caine effortlessly segues across three centuries of history: from the emergence of the 'modern autobiography' in the 18th-century which laid bare the scandalous lives of 'fallen women', to the literary and suffragist autobiographies of the 19th-century to the establishment of feminist publishers in the 20th century and the taboo-shattering autobiographies they produced. The result is a much-needed history, one which provides a different way of thinking about the trajectory of genre information. Caine's compelling study fills an important gap in the genre of autobiography, by embracing a wide range of women and offering an extensive discussion of the autobiographies of women across the 19th and 20th centuries, making it ideal for classroom use.

Women's Autobiographies

Author : Nancy A. Walker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9782881245213
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book Women's Autobiographies written by Nancy A. Walker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1991 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Women and Autobiography

Author : Martine Watson Brownley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842027021
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Women and Autobiography written by Martine Watson Brownley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of women's autobiography, providing historical background and contemporary criticism along with selections from a range of autobiographies by women. It seeks to provide a broad introduction to the major questions dominating autobiographical scholarship today.

Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction

Author : Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110279819
Total Pages : 2220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction written by Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 2220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiographical writings have been a major cultural genre from antiquity to the present time. General questions of the literary as, e.g., the relation between literature and reality, truth and fiction, the dependency of author, narrator, and figure, or issues of individual and cultural styles etc., can be studied preeminently in the autobiographical genre. Yet, the tradition of life-writing has, in the course of literary history, developed manifold types and forms. Especially in the globalized age, where the media and other technological / cultural factors contribute to a rapid transformation of lifestyles, autobiographical writing has maintained, even enhanced, its popularity and importance. By conceiving autobiography in a wide sense that includes memoirs, diaries, self-portraits and autofiction as well as media transformations of the genre, this three-volume handbook offers a comprehensive survey of theoretical approaches, systematic aspects, and historical developments in an international and interdisciplinary perspective. While autobiography is usually considered to be a European tradition, special emphasis is placed on the modes of self-representation in non-Western cultures and on inter- and transcultural perspectives of the genre. The individual contributions are closely interconnected by a system of cross-references. The handbook addresses scholars of cultural and literary studies, students as well as non-academic readers.

American Women's Autobiography

Author : Margo Culley
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299132941
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book American Women's Autobiography written by Margo Culley and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focus on the works of Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gertrude Stein, Mary McCarthy, Maxine Hong Kingston, and others.

Writing Women's History Since the Renaissance

Author : Mary Spongberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0230203078
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Writing Women's History Since the Renaissance written by Mary Spongberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complaint of Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, that history has 'hardly any women at all' is not an uncommon one. Yet there is evidence to suggest that women have engaged in historical writing since ancient times. This study traces the history of women's historical writing, reclaiming the lives of individual women historians, recovering women's historical writings from the past and focusing on how gender has shaped the genre of history. Mary Spongberg brings together for the first time an extensive survey of the progress of women's historical writing from the Renaissance to the present, demonstrating the continuities between women's historical writings in the past and the development of a distinctly woman-centred historiography. Writing Women's History since the Renaissance also examines the relationship between women's history and the development of feminist consciousness, suggesting that the study of history has alerted women to their unequal status and enabled them to use history to achieve women's rights. Whether feminist or anti-feminist, women who have had their historical writings published have served as role models for women seeking a voice in the public sphere and have been instrumental in encouraging the growth of a feminist discourse.

The Diary

Author : Batsheva Ben-Amos
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253046955
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Diary written by Batsheva Ben-Amos and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary as a genre is found in all literate societies, and these autobiographical accounts are written by persons of all ranks and positions. The Diary offers an exploration of the form in its social, historical, and cultural-literary contexts with its own distinctive features, poetics, and rhetoric. The contributors to this volume examine theories and interpretations relating to writing and studying diaries; the formation of diary canons in the United Kingdom, France, United States, and Brazil; and the ways in which handwritten diaries are transformed through processes of publication and digitization. The authors also explore different diary formats, including the travel diary, the private diary, conflict diaries written during periods of crisis, and the diaries of the digital era, such as blogs. The Diary offers a comprehensive overview of the genre, synthesizing decades of interdisciplinary study to enrich our understanding of, research about, and engagement with the diary as literary form and historical documentation.

Women's Life Writing, 1700-1850

Author : D. Cook
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137030771
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Women's Life Writing, 1700-1850 written by D. Cook and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850. It argues for the importance of women's life writing as part of the culture and practice of eighteenth-century and Romantic auto/biography, exploring the complex relationships between constructions of femininity, life writing forms and models of authorship.

American Lives

Author : Robert F. Sayre
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299142445
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book American Lives written by Robert F. Sayre and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Lives is a groundbreaking book, the first historically organized anthology of American autobiographical writing, bringing us fifty-five voices from throughout the nation's history, from Abigail Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Jonathan Edwards, and Richard Wright to Quaker preacher Elizabeth Ashbridge, con man Stephen Burroughs, and circus impresario P.T. Barnum. Representing canonical and non-canonical writers, slaves and slave-owners, generals and conscientious objectors, scientists, immigrants, and Native Americans, the pieces in this collection make up a rich gathering of American "songs of ourselves." Robert F. Sayre frames the selections with an overview of theory and criticism of autobiography and with commentary on the relation between history and many kinds of autobiographical texts--travel narratives, stories of captivity, diaries of sexual liberation, religious conversions, accounts of political disillusionment, and discoveries of ethnic identity. With each selection Sayre also includes an extensive headnote providing valuable critical and biographical information. A scholarly and popular landmark, American Lives is a book for general readers and for teachers, students, and every American scholar.

The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature

Author : James H. Cox
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0199914036
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature written by James H. Cox and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2014 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores Indigenous American literature and the development of an inter- and trans-Indigenous orientation in Native American and Indigenous literary studies. Drawing on the perspectives of scholars in the field, it seeks to reconcile tribal nation specificity, Indigenous literary nationalism, and trans-Indigenous methodologies as necessary components of post-Renaissance Native American and Indigenous literary studies. It looks at the work of Renaissance writers, including Louise Erdrich's Tracks (1988) and Leslie Marmon Silko's Sacred Water (1993), along with novels by S. Alice Callahan and John Milton Oskison. It also discusses Indigenous poetics and Salt Publishing's Earthworks series, focusing on poets of the Renaissance in conversation with emerging writers. Furthermore, it introduces contemporary readers to many American Indian writers from the seventeenth to the first half of the nineteenth century, from Captain Joseph Johnson and Ben Uncas to Samson Occom, Samuel Ashpo, Henry Quaquaquid, Joseph Brant, Hendrick Aupaumut, Sarah Simon, Mary Occom, and Elijah Wimpey. The book examines Inuit literature in Inuktitut, bilingual Mexicanoh and Spanish poetry, and literature in Indian Territory, Nunavut, the Huasteca, Yucatán, and the Great Lakes region. It considers Indigenous literatures north of the Medicine Line, particularly francophone writing by Indigenous authors in Quebec. Other issues tackled by the book include racial and blood identities that continue to divide Indigenous nations and communities, as well as the role of colleges and universities in the development of Indigenous literary studies".

Writing Feminist Lives

Author : Malin Lidström Brock
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319471783
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Writing Feminist Lives written by Malin Lidström Brock and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws attention to the controversy that surrounds Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, and Simone de Beauvoir’s lives and the important role that their life stories have played in their feminist writing. Directly and indirectly, the four women have contributed to battles over feminism’s meaning through autobiographically informed political writing. Inevitably, therefore, their biographers are also participants in these battles, yet not always on the same side as their subjects. Writing Feminist Lives introduces a further fold of nuance into considerations of biography and feminism by showing that the biographers of the four women have made methodological choices that reflect their loyalty to, or their scepticism towards, competing ideological definitions of the exemplary feminist life.

The Oprah Phenomenon

Author : Jennifer Harris
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813159946
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Oprah Phenomenon written by Jennifer Harris and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her image is iconic: Oprah Winfrey has built an empire on her ability to connect with and inspire her audience. No longer just a name, "Oprah" has become a brand representing the talk show host's unique style of self-actualizing individualism. The cultural and economic power wielded by Winfrey merits critical evaluation. The contributors to The Oprah Phenomenon examine the origins of her public image and its substantial influence on politics, entertainment, and popular opinion. Contributors address praise from her many supporters and weigh criticisms from her detractors. Winfrey's ability to create a feeling of intimacy with her audience has long been cited as one of the foundations of her popularity. She has repeatedly made national headlines by engaging and informing her audience with respect to her personal relationships to race, gender, feminism, and New Age culture. The Oprah Phenomenon explores these relationships in detail. At the root of Winfrey's message to her vast audience is her assertion that anyone can be a success regardless of background or upbringing. The contributors scrutinize this message: What does this success entail? Is the motivation behind self-actualization, in fact, merely the hope of replicating Winfrey's purchasing power? Is it just a prescription to buy the products she recommends and heed the advice of people she admires, or is it a lifestyle change of meaningful spiritual benefit? The Oprah Phenomenon asks these and many other difficult questions to promote a greater understanding of Winfrey's influence on the American consciousness.

Allegories of Empire

Author : Jenny Sharpe
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452902470
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Allegories of Empire written by Jenny Sharpe and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allegories of Empire was first published in 1993."Allegories of Empire re-constellates a metropolitan masterpiece, Forster's A Passage to India, within colonial discourse studies. Sharpe, a materialist feminist, is scrupulous in her use of theory to articulate nationalism, historical race-gendering, and contemporary feminist critique." -Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University"Jenny Sharpe has done a great service in opening up the virtually taboo subject of the rape of the white woman by the colored man, and, furthermore, in teaching us theory - making by locating this frenzy of fantasy and reality within a specific crisis of European colonialism in India. ... In showing how a 'wild anthropology' must continuously rework feminism in the face of racism, and vice versa, she shows how the margins of empire were and still are at its center." -Michael Taussig, New York UniversityAllegories of Empire introduces race and colonialism to feminist theories of rape and sexual difference, deploying women's writing to undo the appropriation of English (universal) womanhood for the perpetuation of Empire.Sharpe brings the historical memory of the 1857 Indian Mutiny to bear upon the theme of rape in British adn Anglo-Indian fiction. She argues that the idea of Indian men raping white women was not part of the colonial landscape prior to the revolt that was remembered as the savage attack of mutinous Indian soldiers on defenseless English women.By showing how contemporary theories of female agency are implicated in an imperial past, Sharpe argues that such models are inappropriate, not only for discussion of colonized women, but for European women as well. Ultimately, she insists that feminist theory must begin from difference and dislocation rather than from identity and correspondence if it is to get beyond the race-gender-class impasse.Jenny Sharpe received her Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of Texas at Austin and is currently a professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles. She has contributed articles to Modern Fiction Studies, Genders, and boundary 2.