Autobiographical Inscriptions Form, Personhood, and the American Woman Writer of Color

Name: Autobiographical Inscriptions Form, Personhood, and the American Woman Writer of Color
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ISBN: 9780195123418

ISBN-10: 0195123417

ISBN-13: 9780195123418

Edition: 1999

Authors: Barbara Rodriguez

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As life-writing began to attract critical attention in the 1950s and 60s, theorists, critics, and practitioners of autobiography concerned themselves with inscribing--that is, establishing or asserting--a set of conventions that would define constructions of identity and acts of self-representation. More recently, however, scholars have identified the ways in which autobiographical works recognize and resist those conventions. Moving beyond the narrow, prescriptive definition of autobiography as the factual, chronological, first-person narrative of the life story, critics have theorized the genre from postmodern and feminist perspectives. Autobiographical Inscriptions contributes a…

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List price: $200.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/11/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.29" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction: Reading Autobiography: Strategies and Structures



"Everybody's Zora": Visions, Setting, and Voice in Dust Tracks on a Road



Commodities That Speak: Form and Transformation in Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl



In One Voice: Autobiographical Acts in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Hisaye Yamamoto's "The Legend of Miss Sasagawara"



People Made of Words: Identity and Identification in Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller and Adrienne Kennedy's People Who Led to My Plays


Conclusion: Making Face, Making Race: Prosopopoeia, Autobiography, and Identity Construction in Cecile Pineda's Face


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Selected Bibliography


Index