Featuring essays by leading feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines, this key text explores the latest developments in autobiographical studies.
The collection is structured around the inter-linked concepts of genre, inter-subjectivity and memory. Whilst exemplifying the very different levels of autobiographical activity going on in feminist studies, the contributions chart a movement from autobiography as genre to autobiography as cultural practice, and from the analysis of autobiographical texts to a preoccupation with autobiography as method.
Author(s): Tess Coslett, Celia Lury, Penny Summerfield
Series: Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 288
Tags: Feminism, Literary Criticism, Autobiography
Feminism and Autobiography
Contents
Figures
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I Genre
1 Enforced narratives
2 From ‘self-made women’ to ‘women’s made-selves’?
3 Textualisation of the self and gender identity in the life-story
4 Extending autobiography
Part II Intersubjectivity
5 Dis/composing the subject
6 Spellbound
7 Our mother’s daughters
8 Matrilineal narratives revisited
9 The global self
Part III Memory
10 Subjects-in-time
11 Memory frames
12 Autobiographical times
13 Circa 1959
Part IV Autobiography matters
14 Auto/biography and the actual course of things
15 Doing Sym/Bio/Graphy with Yasna
16 Bringing it home
Index
