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Autobiographical inscriptions : form, personhood, and the American woman writer of color
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- Creator
- Barbara RodrÃguez
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 1999
- Physical Details
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- xii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780195123418, 0195123417
- OCLC
- ocm40354896
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index.
- Introduction. Reading autobiography: strategies and structures. -- "Everybody's Zora:: visions, setting, and voice in Dust tracks on a road. -- Commodities that speak: form and transformation in Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative and Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the life of a slave girl. -- In one voice: autobiographical acts in Maxine Hong Kingston's The women warrior nad Hisaye Yamamoto's "The legend of Miss Sasagawara." -- People made of words: identity and identification in Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller and Adrienne Kennedy's People who led my plays. -- Conclusion. Making face, making race: prosopopoeia, autobiography, and identity construction in Cecile Pineda's Face
Subjects
- American prose literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
- American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- Autobiographical fiction, American -- History and criticism.
- Women and literature -- United States -- History.
- Autobiography -- Women authors.
- Minority women in literature.
- Ethnic groups in literature.
- Minorities in literature.
- Literary form.