Authoring a life
Subtitle: a woman's survival in and through literary studies
By: Brenda Daly.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Incest victims -- Rehabilitation.; Bibliotherapy.; Autobiography -- Therapeutic use.; Incest in literature.
Description: Authoring a Life illustrates how language often plays an important part in many a victim's struggle to survive the debilitating effects of father-daughter incest. For example, reading may serve as therapy, enabling a survivor to confront rather that repress painful memories, and writing may help a survivor to recover a sense of authoring both her texts and her life.

The book argues that, despite the current backlash against survivor stories, language arts teachers must develop effective pedagogies for teaching father-daughter incest narratives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-249) and index.