Gendered Resistance: The Autobiographies of Simone de Beauvoir, Maya Angelou, Janet Frame and Marguerite Duras

by Valérie Baisnée

Four major women's autobiographies of the 20th century are discussed together here for the first time. Valerie Baisnee reinterprets the autobiographical writing of Simone de Beauvoir, Maya Angelou, Janet Frame and Marguerite Duras, finding some striking similarities in these women's resistance to a conservative order. ein Derridianischer Ansatz (J. van den Oord).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042001097
• ISBN13: 9789042001091
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 184 Pages