Autobiographical inscriptions
Subtitle: form, personhood, and the American woman writer of color
By: Barbara Rodríguez.
Series: W.E.B. Du Bois Institute; W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Series)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: American prose literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism; American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Autobiographical fiction, American -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- United States -- History; Autobiography -- Women authors; Minority women in literature; Ethnic groups in literature; Minorities in literature; Literary form
Description: "Autobiographical Inscriptions contributes a theory of autobiography by women writers of color to this lively repositioning of auto-biography studies. Barbara Rodriguez breaks new ground in the field with a discussion of the ways in which innovations of form and structure bolster the arguments for personhood articulated by Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko, Adrienne Kennedy, and Cecile Pineda."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-220) and index.