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Autobiographical Voices : Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture.

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Adopting a boldly innovative approach to women's autobiographical writing, Françoise Lionnet here examines the rhetoric of self-portraiture in works by authors who are bilingual or multilingual or of mixed races or cultures. Autobiographical Voices offers incisive readings of texts by Zora Neal...

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Main Author: Lionnet, Françoise
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Series:Reading Women Writing Ser.
Subjects:
Women > Biography > History and criticism.
Autobiography > Women authors > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > History and criticism.
Femmes > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes autobiographiques > Histoire et critique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Presidents & Heads of State.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Reference.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Rich & Famous.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Royalty.
Autobiography > Women authors
Literature, Modern
Women > Biography
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Adopting a boldly innovative approach to women's autobiographical writing, Françoise Lionnet here examines the rhetoric of self-portraiture in works by authors who are bilingual or multilingual or of mixed races or cultures. Autobiographical Voices offers incisive readings of texts by Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou, Marie Cardinal, Maryse Condé, Marie-Thérèse Humbert, Augustine, and Nietzsche.
Physical Description:1 online resource (275 pages)
ISBN:1501723103
9781501723100