Women's Life Writing and the Practice of Reading: She Reads to Write Herself (1st ed. 2018) (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing)

Synopsis

This collection of essays offers a stimulating insight into the practice of reading and the relationship between reading and writing in women’s life writing texts such as memoirs, autobiographies, diaries, travel logs, and graphic memoirs. It covers a great variety of writers from literary classics such as Virginia Woolf to the authors of slave narratives. Some essays focus on how literary texts help frame a narrative of the self, acting as models and counter models; others insist on the role of literature in resisting imposed gendered and ethnic identities. The essays also show that female writers use reading to deepen their relationship to the rest of the world. While reading is often represented as central to life and aesthetic experience, the collection stresses that there is no single or universal approach to reading in women’s life writing. Taking into account debates about life writing, the collection opens new fields of investigation and fully participates in current scholarly conversations in the field.

Copyright:

2018

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Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9783319752471

Related ISBNs:

9783319752464

Publisher:

Springer International Publishing

Date of Addition:

03/02/20

Copyrighted By:

Springer

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Literature and Fiction, Language Arts

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Bookshare Staff

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Edited by:

Valérie Baisnée-Keay

Edited by:

Corinne Bigot

Edited by:

Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni

Edited by:

Claire Bazin