Composing selves
Subtitle: Southern women and autobiography
By: Peggy Whitman Prenshaw
Series: Southern literary studies
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780807137918
Subjects: Autobiography; Women authors; American prose literature; History and criticism; Biography; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Region, genre, gender; title: A feminist life narrative in a traditionalist society : Belle Kearney; title: A distanced Southern girlhood : Helen Keller and Anne Walter Fearn; title: Wifehood narratives : Mary Hamilton and Agnes Grinstead Anderson; title: Belles, wives, and public lives, part I : Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair; title: Belles, wives, and public lives, part II : Virginia Foster Durr, Lindy Claiborne Boggs, and Lylah Scarborough Barber; title: Testimonial narratives of racial consciousness : Katharine DuPre Lumpkin and Lillian Smith; title: Narratives of a writing life, part I : Ellen Glasgow and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; title: Narratives of a writing life, part II : Zora Neale Hurston and Bernice Kelly Harris; title: Modes of autobiographical narrative : Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Spencer, and Ellen Douglas; title: Coda: Reflections on a literary genre.