Title Writing selves : contemporary feminist autography / Jeanne Perreault

Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (x, 153 pages) Contents Acknowledgments; One: Autography/Transformation/Asymmetry; Two: Adrienne Rich: A Poetics of Subjectivity; Three: Kate Millett's The Basement: Testimony of the Unspeakable; Four: Patricia Williams's Alchemy: "my most precious property, I"; Five: Selves: Intersecting; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary Why "autography"? Because there really is no genre for feminist self-writing. This is the territory, between autobiography and feminist thought, that Jeanne Perreault marks out. Writing Selves retheorizes ideas of self, identity, and community as embodied and textualized forces of change. In the writers under study, "selvings" intersect the discourses of history, the law, and the sexual and racial body. Looking to Audre Lorde's Cancer Journals, Kate Millet's The Basement, Adrienne Rich's later prose and poetry, and Patricia Williams's "diary," among other works, Perreault compellingly examines Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-150) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012 -- Criticism and interpretation Williams, Patricia J., 1951- Alchemy of race and rights Lorde, Audre. Cancer journals Millett, Kate. Basement SUBJECT Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012 fast Subject American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Women -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism Authorship -- Sex differences Self in literature. Autobiography. American literature -- History and criticism. Women -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism autobiography (genre) LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays. Women American literature American literature -- Women authors Authorship -- Sex differences Autobiography Feminism and literature Self in literature Women and literature Women -- Biography United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 95008529 ISBN 9780816686711 0816686718 9780816626540 0816626545

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