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Author Fuchs, Miriam, 1949-

Title The text is myself : women's life writing and catastrophe / Miriam Fuchs
Published Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Wisconsin studies in autobiography
Wisconsin studies in autobiography.
Contents Ch. 1. Autobiography as Political Discourse: Lili'uokalani's Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen -- Ch. 2. Autobiographical Fiction as Testimony: H. D.'s The Gift -- Ch. 3. Biographical Fiction as Autobiographical Palimpsest: Anna Banti's Artemisia -- Ch. 4. Biblical Renarratization as Autobiographical Intertext: Grete Weil's The Bride Price: A Novel -- Ch. 5. Autobiographical Discourse as Biographical Tribute: Isabel Allende's Paula
Summary "Queen Lili'uokalani, the last monarch of Hawai'i, was forced to abdicate and faced the annexation of her homeland. American poet H. D. wrote through the London blitz and during the years of less regular bombing. Italian novelist and art critic Anna Banti lost the manuscript of her novel about Artemisia Gentileschi but survived the war devastation to Florence to rewrite it. German Jewish novelist Grete Weil fled to Holland, but her husband was arrested there and murdered by the Nazis. Chilean novelist Isabel Allende fled her country after her uncle Salvador Allende was assassinated, and she later lost her daughter to disease."
"In The Text Is Myself, Miriam Fuchs analyzes the impact of catastrophe on the lives and writings of these five women. She shows that, however much the past may be shaped into a discernible storyline, it is the uncertain present that preoccupies these writers. Using a feminist and comparative approach to the texts, Fuchs links the women in creative and insightful ways and displays their many profound connections, despite the differences in their cultural and geographic backgrounds."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index
Subject Women and literature.
Self in literature.
Life change events.
Autobiographical fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Autobiography -- Women authors.
LC no. 2003005656
ISBN 0299190641 paperback alkaline paper
0299190609 cloth alkaline paper