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Author Rodriguez, Barbara (Barbara Ruth)

Title Autobiographical inscriptions : form, personhood, and the American woman writer of color / Barbara Rodríguez
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) : illustrations
Series W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Series)
Contents INTRODUCTION: Reading Autobiography: Strategies and Structures; 1 "Everybody's Zora": Visions, Setting, and Voice in Dust Tracks on a Road; 2 Commodities That Speak: Form and Transformation in Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; 3 In One Voice: Autobiographical Acts in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Hisaye Yarnamoto's "The Legend of Miss Sasagawara"; 4 People Made of Words: Identity and Identification in Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller and Adrienne Kennedy's People Who Led to My Plays
Summary This text is a discussion of the ways that innovations of form and structure contain and bolster arguments for personhood. Organized thematically, with chapters focusing on central questions of form, this work pairs canonized texts with less well-known works
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index
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Subject 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.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American prose literature -- Minority authors
American prose literature -- Women authors
Autobiographical fiction, American
Autobiography -- Women authors
Ethnic groups in literature
Literary form
Minorities in literature
Minority women in literature
Women and literature
United States
Genre/Form Computer network resources
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 98051962
ISBN 1602563101
9781602563100
9780195123418
0195123417
1423760174
9781423760177
1280471476
9781280471476
9786610471478
6610471479