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A Poetics of Women's Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-Representation

Smith, Sidonie

Literature & Fiction

Indiana Univ. Pr

Subjectivity, Identity, and the Body: Women's Autobiographical Practices in the Twentieth Century

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Indiana University Press

History

An Introduction, plus 20 studies, including Suzanne Chester on Marguerite Duras, Sidonie Smith on Isak Dinesen, Shirley Lim on Kamala Das, Francoise Lionnet on Michelle Cliff.

De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography

History & Criticism

Univ of Minnesota Pr

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Getting A Life

Watson, Julia

Routledge

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Getting A Life: Everyday Uses of Autobiography

Reference

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Moving Lives: Twentieth-Century Women's Travel Writing

As technological advances increased the ease, speed, and reach of transportation, more and more women took to the air, to the road and the rail, and headed for points elsewhere. As they mastered new modes of mobility and then narrated their journeys, these women travelers left cultural ideas of femininity as sedentary, subordinate, and constrained in the dust. In Moving Lives Sidonie Smith explores how women's travel and travel writing in the twentieth century were shaped by particular modes of mobility, asking how the form of travel affected the kind of narrative written.Alexandra David-Neel journeying on foot across the Himalayas; Robyn Davidson on her camel in the outback of Australia; Amelia Earhart, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Beryl Markham climbing into the cockpit of their airplanes; Mary Morris riding a train from Beijing to Berlin; Irma Kurtz taking a Greyhound into the bellies of American cities and towns -- of these and other women, Smith asks: What do they make of their travels? How do they enact the dynamics of and contradictions in the drift of identity? Are they defined by the experience -- or do they define the meaning of a particular mode of transport in new and different ways, and in doing so, disentangle travel from its masculine logic?Unique in its focus on the relationship of women in motion, technologies of motion, and autobiographical practices, Moving Lives will interest readers across a broad spectrum of disciplines, as well as those who are simply intrigued by travel narratives.

As technological advances increased the ease, speed, and reach of transportation, more and more women took to the air, to the road and the rail, and headed for points elsewhere. As they mastered new modes of mobility and then narrated their journeys, these women travelers left cultural ideas of femininity as sedentary, subordinate, and constrained in the dust. In Moving Lives Sidonie Smith explores how women's travel and travel writing in the twentieth century were shaped by particular modes of mobility, asking how the form of travel affected the kind of narrative written.
Alexandra David-Neel journeying on foot across the Himalayas; Robyn Davidson on her camel in the outback of Australia; Amelia Earhart, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Beryl Markham climbing into the cockpit of their airplanes; Mary Morris riding a train from Beijing to Berlin; Irma Kurtz taking a Greyhound into the bellies of American cities and towns -- of these and other women, Smith asks: What do they make of their travels? How do they enact the dynamics of and contradictions in the drift of identity? Are they defined by the experience -- or do they define the meaning of a particular mode of transport in new and different ways, and in doing so, disentangle travel from its masculine logic?
Unique in its focus on the relationship of women in motion, technologies of motion, and autobiographical practices, Moving Lives will interest readers across a broad spectrum of disciplines, as well as those who are simply intrigued by travel narratives.

Autobiographical writing is redefining the meaning of narrative, as the recent explosion of memoirs by writers such as Frank McCourt, Mary Karr, Dave Eggers, and Kathryn Harrison suggests. But what's involved in bringing these narratives into the classroom-in creative writing, cultural studies, women's and ethnic studies, and social science and literature courses? How may instructors engage the philosophical, historical, social, and theoretical contexts of the emerging field of autobiography studies? Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, two authorities in the field, distill their diverse forays into life writing in a concise yet far-reaching overview of key terms, issues, histories, and texts in autobiography studies. Reading Autobiography is a step-by-step introduction to the differences of autobiography from fiction and biography; the components of autobiographical acts; such core concepts as memory, experience, identity, agency, and the body; the textual and critical history of the field; and prospects for future research. Organized as a user-friendly handbook, it includes a glossary of keywords, suggestions for teaching, and extensive primary and secondary bibliographies. Sidonie Smith is professor of English and director of women's studies at the University of Michigan. Julia Watson is associate professor of comparative studies at Ohio State University.

Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives

Arts & Literature

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A Poetics of Women's Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-Representation

Subjectivity, Identity, and the Body: Women's Autobiographical Practices in the Twentieth Century

A Poetics of Women's Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-Representation

Subjectivity, Identity, and the Body: Women's Autobiographical Practices in the Twentieth Century

De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography

Getting A Life

Getting A Life: Everyday Uses of Autobiography

Moving Lives: Twentieth-Century Women's Travel Writing

Moving Lives: Twentieth-Century Women's Travel Writing

Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives