Title Working in women's archives : researching women's private literature and archival documents / Helen M. Buss and Marlene Kadar, editors

Published Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (v, 120 pages) : illustrations Series Life writing series Life writing series. Contents Introduction / Helen M. Buss -- Locating Female Subjects in the Archives / Carole Gerson -- Constructing Female Subjects in the Archive : A Reading of Three Versions of One Woman's Subjectivity / Helen M. Buss -- Researching Eighteenth-Century Maritime Women Writers : Deborah How Cottnam-- A Case Study / Gwendolyn Davies -- "A Dusting Off" : An Anecdotal Account of Editing the L.M. Montgomery Journals / Mary Rubio -- Reading My Grandmother's Life from Her Letters : Constance Kerr Sissons from Adolescence to Engagement / Rosalind Kerr -- Personal Papers : Putting Lives on the Line-- Working with the Marian Engel Archive / Christl Verduyn -- An Epistolary Constellation : Trotsky, Kahlo, Birney ; Afterword / Marlene Kadar Summary "What Comes to mind when we hear that a friend or colleague is studying unpublished documents in a celebrated author's archive? We might assume that they are reading factual documents or, at the very least, straightforward accounts of the truth about someone or some event. But are they?" "Working in Women's Archives is a collection of essays that poses this question and offers a variety of answers. Any assumption readers may have about the archive as a neutral library space or about the archival document as a simple and pure text is challenged." "In essays discussing celebrated Canadian authors such as Marian Engel and L.M. Montgomery, as well as lesser-known writers such as Constance Kerr Sissons and Marie Rose Smith, Working in Women's Archives persuades us that our research methods must be revised and refined in order to create a scholarly place for a greater variety of archival subjects and to accurately represent them in current feminist and poststructuralist theories."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Women authors, Canadian -- Biography -- History and criticism Canadian literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Women authors, Canadian -- Archives Literature -- Women authors. Fiction -- Women authors. Drama -- Women authors. Short stories -- Women authors. Poetry -- Women authors. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Short stories -- Women authors Poetry -- Women authors Fiction -- Women authors Drama -- Women authors Literature -- Women authors Women authors, Canadian Women authors, Canadian -- Biography Genre/Form Electronic books Archives Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Buss, Helen M Kadar, Marlene, 1950- ISBN 1417534052 9781417534050 1280925280 9781280925283 9786610925285 6610925283

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