| Description |
xii, 255 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory |
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SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction / Susan Groag Bell and Marilyn Yalom -- 1. The "failure" of biography and the triumph of women's writing: Bettina von Arnim's Die Günderode and Christa Wolf's The Quest for Christa T. Anna K. Kuhn -- 2. "Double singleness": gender role mergence in the autobiographical writings of Charles and Mary Lamb / Jane Aaron -- 3. A Woman in the "Man's World": the journals of Nadezhda Durova / Mary Fleming Zirin -- 4. Biography as autobiography: Adèle Hugo, witness of her husband's life / Marilyn Yalom -- 5. Biography as reflected autobiography: the self-creation of Anne Thackeray Ritchie / Carol Hanbery MacKay -- 6. The feminization of John Stuart Mill / Susan Groag Bell -- 7. The literary standard, working-class autobiography, and gender / Regenia Gagnier -- 8. "Yo Sola Aprendi": Mexican women's personal narratives from 19th-century California / Genaro Padilla -- 9. Reconstructing the person: the case of Clara Shortridge Foltz / Barbara Allen Babcock -- 10. Lorine Niedecker: composing a life / Glenna Breslin -- 11. Postmodernism and the biographer / Diane Wood Middlebrook -- 12. The mother tongue of Paul Celan: translation into biography / John Felstiner -- 13. Engendering an autobiography in art: Charlotte Salomon's "Life? Or Theater?" / Mary Lowenthal Felstiner -- 14. "Father Books": memoirs of the children of fascist fathers / Susan G. Figge.tics and |
| Notes |
Papers from a conference on autobiography and biography: gender, text, and context, 1986, sponsored by the Center for Research on Women at Stanford University |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Autobiography -- Congresses.
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Biography as a literary form -- Congresses.
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Identity (Psychology) -- Congresses.
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Self in literature -- Congresses.
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Sex role in literature -- Congresses.
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Women -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Bell, Susan G.
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Yalom, Marilyn.
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Stanford University. Center for Research on Women.
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| LC no. |
89026285 |
| ISBN |
0791404358 |
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0791404366 (paperback) |
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