Representing Lives: Women and Auto/biography is an eclectic and comprehensive collection of essays, exploring contemporary issues and debates concerning women's auto-biographical representations from a range of disciplinary perspectives. With authoritative contributions from a number of prominent figures in the field of women's auto/biography, as well as innovative new voices, this volume offers a broad and contemporary lens on the issues and debates relevant to the act of representing women's lives. Drawing on a variety of theoretical frameworks and discussing theatre, literature, popular culture and women in history, these essays help to map out some of the new intellectual spaces inhabited by feminist scholarship in the 1990s.
List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction Keynote Address; L.Stanley PART I: PLACING THE SUBJECT First Person Suspect, or, The Enemy Within...; J.Swindells Korean American National Identity in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee ; H.Grice Mary Kingsley: The Female Ethnographic Self in Writing; L.Turner PART II: REVISING GENRES Traps Slyly Laid: Professing Autobiography in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig ; R.J.Ellis Lorine Niedecker: Auto-biography and Poetry; L.Jowett Travel Writing in Autobiography: Rebecca West's Journey of Self-Discovery; V.Goldsworthy 'My Poor Private Voice': Virginia Woolf and Auto/biography; A.Snaith Distinguishing Autobiography From the Novel; T.Blowers PART III: STAGING THE SELF Staging Our Selves; E.Aston Performance and Pedagogy: The 'Signifying Monkey' and the Educative I/Eye; N.Imoru Viglen's Revenge ; A.Oddey PART IV: (AUTO)BIOGRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS Tupperware Ladies; V.Gill-Brown The Discourse of Selfhood: Oral Autobiographies as Narrative Sites for Constructions of Identity; E.Barát From Shaping Imperialism to Sharing Imprisonment: The Politics of the Personal in South African Female Missionary Biography; D.Gaitskell Constructing the Subject? Emmy Ball-Henning's Autobiographical Texts; C.Schönfeld PART V: RECOVERING LIVES - REVISING HISTORY 'My Mind on Paper': Anne Lister and the Construction of Lesbian Identity; A.Rowanchild Promoting the Self: The Representational Strategies of Georgina Weldon; H.Nicholson Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928): Suffragette, Militant Feminist and Champion of Womanhood; J.Purvis 'The Narrow Margin of Long Days of Toil': Class and Education in the Writings of Ruth Slate; T.G.Ashplant PART VI: MATRILINEALITY One, Two, Three: Sylvia Plath's Verse Dramas; N.Shaughnessy Double Vision: Mother(s) in Simone De Beauvoir's Mémoirs d'une Jeunne Fille Rangée (Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter) and Une Mort Trés Douce (A Very Easy Death); A.Fell The Autobiographical Voice in Lily Braun's Fiction; N.BriceAuto/biography - Auto/Mythology: Mina Loy's Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose ; A.Goody Index
