Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture (Reading Women Writing)

By Françoise Lionnet

Book Overview

Adopting a boldly innovative approach to women's autobiographical writing, Fran oise 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 Cond , Marie-Th r se Humbert, Augustine, and Nietzsche.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801499275
• ISBN13: 9780801499272
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher