"Grouped together, these very different essays raise and respond to a question that feminist theorists continue to ask--about the extent to which individual experience and self-expression may be read as representative."--Rachel M. Brownstein, author of "Becoming a Heroine: Reading About Women in Novels"
"Grouped together, these very different essays raise and respond to a question that feminist theorists continue to ask--about the extent to which individual experience and self-expression may be read as representative."--Rachel M. Brownstein, author of "Becoming a Heroine: Reading About Women in Novels"
Diane P. Freedman, Assistant Professor of English at University of New Hampshire, is the author of An Alchemy of Genres: Cross-Genre Writing by American Women Poet Critics. Olivia Frey is Associate Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies at St. Olaf College. Frances Murphy Zauhar is Assistant Professor of English at St. Vincent College.
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Acknowledgments vii Introduction / Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey, and Francis Murphy Zauhar 1 Part 1. Muse-ings on Genre, Autobiography, Narrative: Formative Strategies Border Crossing as Method and Motif in Contemporary American Writing, or, How Freud Helped Me Case the Joint / Diane P. Freedman 13 Me and My Shadow / Jane Tompkins 23 Beyond Literary Darwinism: Women's Voices and Critical Discourse / Olivia Frey 41 "Everyday Life": My Sojourn at Parchman Farm / Cheryl B. Torsney 67 Excerpts from Letters to Friends / Susan Koppelman 75 Social Circles: Being a Report on J. Hills Miller's Campus Visitation / Linda R. Robertson 81 Touchstones and Bedrocks: Learning the Stories We Need / Victoria Ekanger 93 Part II. Critical Confessions Creative Voices: Women Reading and Women's Writing / Frances Murphy Zauhar 103 Breaking Silence: The Woman Warrior / Shirley Nelson Garner 117 Different Silences / Traise Yamamoto 127 "What's in a Name?": Some Meanings of Blackness / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 135 Poetry and the Age: "A Girl in a Library" to Randall Jarrell / Sandra M. Brown 151 My Friend, Joyce Carol Oates / Brenda Daly 163 Somebody Must Say These Things: An Essay for My Mother / Melody Graulich 175 The Scarlet Brewer and the Voice of the Colonized / Shirley Geok-lin Lim 191 Dividing Fences / Carol S. Taylor 197 What Do Women Really Mean? Thoughts on Women's Diaries and Lives / Suzanne Bunkers 207 Part III. Autobiographical Literary Criticism Between the Medusa and the Abyss: Reading Jane Eyre, Reading Myself / Ellen Brown 225 Rereading Middlemarch, Rereading Myself / Peter Carlton 237 The Crippling of the Third World: Shiva Naipaul's Heritage / Rosanne Kanhai-Brunton 225 Penelope's Web / Gail Griffin 255 "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around!": Reading the Narrative of Frederick Douglass / Dolan Hubbard 265 Catharine Trotter Cockburn and Me: A Duography / Kendall 273 In Between Abject and Object: The Mourning Sickness of the Expectant Mother, or, Three Movements of the Blues in B Minor / Dana Beckelman 283 La Ronde of Children and Mothers / Julia Balen 293 Selected Bibliography 303 Contributors 309
Acknowledgments vii Introduction / Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey, and Francis Murphy Zauhar 1 Part 1. Muse-ings on Genre, Autobiography, Narrative: Formative Strategies Border Crossing as Method and Motif in Contemporary American Writing, or, How Freud Helped Me Case the Joint / Diane P. Freedman 13 Me and My Shadow / Jane Tompkins 23 Beyond Literary Darwinism: Women's Voices and Critical Discourse / Olivia Frey 41 "Everyday Life": My Sojourn at Parchman Farm / Cheryl B. Torsney 67 Excerpts from Letters to Friends / Susan Koppelman 75 Social Circles: Being a Report on J. Hills Miller's Campus Visitation / Linda R. Robertson 81 Touchstones and Bedrocks: Learning the Stories We Need / Victoria Ekanger 93 Part II. Critical Confessions Creative Voices: Women Reading and Women's Writing / Frances Murphy Zauhar 103 Breaking Silence: The Woman Warrior / Shirley Nelson Garner 117 Different Silences / Traise Yamamoto 127 "What's in a Name?": Some Meanings of Blackness / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 135 Poetry and the Age: "A Girl in a Library" to Randall Jarrell / Sandra M. Brown 151 My Friend, Joyce Carol Oates / Brenda Daly 163 Somebody Must Say These Things: An Essay for My Mother / Melody Graulich 175 The Scarlet Brewer and the Voice of the Colonized / Shirley Geok-lin Lim 191 Dividing Fences / Carol S. Taylor 197 What Do Women Really Mean? Thoughts on Women's Diaries and Lives / Suzanne Bunkers 207 Part III. Autobiographical Literary Criticism Between the Medusa and the Abyss: Reading Jane Eyre, Reading Myself / Ellen Brown 225 Rereading Middlemarch, Rereading Myself / Peter Carlton 237 The Crippling of the Third World: Shiva Naipaul's Heritage / Rosanne Kanhai-Brunton 225 Penelope's Web / Gail Griffin 255 "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around!": Reading the Narrative of Frederick Douglass / Dolan Hubbard 265 Catharine Trotter Cockburn and Me: A Duography / Kendall 273 In Between Abject and Object: The Mourning Sickness of the Expectant Mother, or, Three Movements of the Blues in B Minor / Dana Beckelman 283 La Ronde of Children and Mothers / Julia Balen 293 Selected Bibliography 303 Contributors 309
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