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Repossessing the World: Life Writing Series

Autor Helen M. Buss
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2002
Why does it seem as if everyone is writing memoirs, and particularly women? The current popularity of memoir verifies the common belief that we each have a story to tell. And we do...especially women. Memoirs are not only representations of womens personal lives but also of their desire to repossess important parts of our culture, in which womens stories have not mattered. Beginning with her own motivations for writing memoirs, Helen M. Buss examines the many kinds of memoir written by contemporary women: memoirs about growing up, memoirs about traumatic events, about relationships, about work. In writing memoirs, these women publicly assert that their lives have mattered. They reshape the memoir, a form as old as the middle ages and as young as today, into a social discourse that blends the personal with the political, the self with the significant other, literature with history, and fiction with autobiography and essay. Buss urges readers to use their reading experience to help themselves understand and write the significance of their own lives. Repossessing the World is the first book-length critical inquiry into womens use of a form that has often been dismissed as less important than autobiography, less professional than the novel, and less intellectual than the formal essay. Buss demonstrates that the memoir makes its own art, not only through selective borrowing from these genres but also through the unique way that the tripartite narrative voice of the memoir constructs the personal and public experience of the memorist as significant to our cultural moment.
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ISBN-13: 9780889204096
ISBN-10: 0889204098
Pagini: 206
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Seriile Life Writing Series, Life Writing


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Repossessing the World: Reading Memoirs by Contemporary Women by Helen M. Buss


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