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This feminist literary study discusses postmodern ideas about the self, particularly about the way in which selves are constructed by biography and autobiography. The author particularly examines the manner in which women write about themselves.

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Introduction: On feminism, culture politics and post/modern selves; enter the author, the auto/biographical I. Part 1 On auto/bimography: fictions and lives; the presumptive feminist reinscribing "bio" in autography; a biographer manque. Part 2 On (auto)biography: biography as microscope or kaleidoscope? - the cas of "power" in Hanah Cullwick's relationship with Arthur Munby; how Olive Schreiner vanished, leaving behind only her asthmatic personality; feminism and friendship. Part 3 On feminist auto/biography: is there a feminist auto/biography?.

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 12/7/1995 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719046490, 978-0719046490
      ISBN10: 0719046491

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This feminist literary study discusses postmodern ideas about the self, particularly about the way in which selves are constructed by biography and autobiography. The author particularly examines the manner in which women write about themselves.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: On feminism, culture politics and post/modern selves; enter the author, the auto/biographical I. Part 1 On auto/bimography: fictions and lives; the presumptive feminist reinscribing "bio" in autography; a biographer manque. Part 2 On (auto)biography: biography as microscope or kaleidoscope? - the cas of "power" in Hanah Cullwick's relationship with Arthur Munby; how Olive Schreiner vanished, leaving behind only her asthmatic personality; feminism and friendship. Part 3 On feminist auto/biography: is there a feminist auto/biography?.

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