Women's Life Writing and Imagined Communities

ISBN-13: 9780415372206 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 344 str.

Cynthia Huff; Cynthia Huff

Opis

This collection of 15 essays with a critical introduction explores how women's life-writing reflects and shapes a community's values - whether that community is global, national, or local. The authors examine women's autobiographical texts from a variety of perspectives, including feminism, cultural studies, postmodernism, and New Historicism. The material analyzed includes novels, memoirs, autobiographies, web pages, online zines, letters, religious records, anthologies, and deportation narratives.
This volume was previously published as a special issue of the journal Prose Studies.

Spis treści

Notes on Contrthutors -- Acknowledgments -- Towards a geography of women's life writing and imagined communities : an introductory essay /Cynthia Huff -- Imagined ancestral communities of displaced Australian daughters : Evelyn Crawford's Over My Tracks and Lily Brett's After the War and Unintended Consequences /Gay Breyley -- The community of camp sisters : bonds of support, bonds of subversion /Deborah Lee Ames -- Imagining an hospitable community in the deportation narratives of Baltic women /Leena Kurvet-Kaosaar -- Imagining "sweet fellowship" : resisting prejudice with spiritual transcendence in Jarena Lee's imagined community /Jeryl J. Prescott -- Reverse migrations and imagined communities /Manuela Costantino and Susanna Egan -- "Somewhere between Puerto Rico and New York" : the representation of individual and collective identities in Esmeralda Santiago's When I was Puerto Rican and Almost a woman /Marta Vizcaya Echano -- Dear (embodied) reader : life writing and disability /Susannah B. Mintz -- "Prei for me mi leue suster" : the paradox of the anchoritic "community" in late medieval England /Michelle M. Sauer -- Collaborative life writing as ideology : the auto /biographies of Mary Howitt and her family /Linda H. Peterson -- "We are the web" : letter writing and the 1980s women's peace movement /Margaretta Jolly -- Consuming lives, creating community : female Chinese-American diary writing on the Web /Lena Karlsson -- Another form of crying : girl zines as life writing /Jennifer Sinor -- Voices /Lynn Z. Bloom -- This bridge called my book : anthologies of women's life writing and the problem of community /Jillian Sandell -- Imagining sisterhood, again /Jeanne Perreault

O autorze

Cynthia Huff is a Professor of English at Illinois State University. She is the co-editor of Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women's Diaries (1996).