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Women's Life Writing and the Practice of Reading: She Reads to Write Herself 2018 Edition
Contributor(s): Baisnée-Keay, Valérie (Editor), Bigot, Corinne (Editor), Alexoae-Zagni, Nicoleta (Editor)
ISBN: 3319752464     ISBN-13: 9783319752464
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
OUR PRICE:   $151.99  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: July 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
- Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century
Dewey: 801
Series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.28 lbs) 339 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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This collection of essays offers a stimulating insight into the practice of reading and the relationship between reading and writing in women's life writing texts such as memoirs, autobiographies, diaries, travel logs, and graphic memoirs. It covers a great variety of writers from literary classics such as Virginia Woolf to the authors of slave narratives. Some essays focus on how literary texts help frame a narrative of the self, acting as models and counter models; others insist on the role of literature in resisting imposed gendered and ethnic identities. The essays also show that female writers use reading to deepen their relationship to the rest of the world. While reading is often represented as central to life and aesthetic experience, the collection stresses that there is no single or universal approach to reading in women's life writing. Taking into account debates about life writing, the collection opens new fields of investigation and fully participates in current scholarly conversations in the field.