Writing Selves
Contemporary Feminist Autography
Jeanne Perreault(Author)
University of Minnesota Press
Published on 31. December 1995
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-0-8166-2654-0 (ISBN)
Description
This work re-theorizes ideas of self, identity and community as embodied and textualized forces of change. Using the concept of autography it aims to make a major contribution to the questions informing the poetics and politics of identity. Looking to Audre Lorde's "Cancer Journals", Kate Millet's "The Basement", Adrienne Rich's later prose and poetry, and Patricia William's "Diary", among other works, Perreault compellingly examines writing as a significant element in the processes of self-making. Exploring the shifting boundaries of feminist communities, Perreault demonstrates how an intense reciting of "I" and "we" allows the reconceptiion of an ethically informed subjectivity.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-2654-0 (9780816626540)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Autography/transformation/asymmetry; Adrienne Rich - a poetics of subjectivity; Kate Millett's "The Basement" - testimony of the unspeakable; Patricia Williams's "Alchemy" - "My most precious property, I"; selves - intersecting.