Representing Lives: Women and Auto/biography

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Is There Life in the Contact Zone? Auto/Biographical Practices and the Field of Representation in Writing Past Lives....Pages 3-30
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
First Person Suspect, or, the Enemy Within …....Pages 33-42
Korean American National Identity in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee....Pages 43-52
Mary Kingsley: the Female Ethnographic Self in Writing....Pages 53-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Traps Slyly Laid: Professing Autobiography in Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig....Pages 65-76
Lorine Niedecker: Auto/biography and Poetry....Pages 77-86
Travel Writing as Autobiography: Rebecca West’s Journey of Self-Discovery....Pages 87-95
‘My Poor Private Voice’: Virginia Woolf and Auto/Biography....Pages 96-104
The Textual Contract: Distinguishing Autobiography from the Novel....Pages 105-116
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Staging Our Selves....Pages 119-128
Performance and Pedagogy: the ‘Signifying Monkey’ and the Educative I/Eye....Pages 129-137
Viglen’s Revenge....Pages 138-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Tupperware Ladies: a Story of Women and Tupperware....Pages 155-164
The Discourse of Selfhood: Oral Autobiographies as Narrative Sites for Constructions of Identity....Pages 165-173
From Shaping Imperialism to Sharing Imprisonment: the Politics of the Personal in South African Female Missionary Biography....Pages 174-186
Constructing the Subject? Emmy Ball-Hennings’s Autobiographical Texts....Pages 187-195
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
‘My Mind on Paper’: Anne Lister and the Construction of Lesbian Identity....Pages 199-207
Promoting Herself: the Representational Strategies of Georgina Weldon....Pages 208-217
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928): Suffragette, Militant Feminist and Champion of Womanhood....Pages 218-227
‘The Narrow Margin of Long Days of Toil’: Class and Education in the Writings of Ruth Slate....Pages 228-237
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
One, Two, Three: Sylvia Plath’s Verse Dramas....Pages 241-250
Double Vision: Mother(s) in Simone de Beauvoir’s Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter and A Very Easy Death....Pages 251-259
The Autobiographical Voice in Lily Braun’s Fiction....Pages 260-269
Autobiography/Auto-mythology: Mina Loy’s Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose....Pages 270-279
Back Matter....Pages 281-300