Autobiographical Voices
Subtitle: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture (Reading Women Writing)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: April 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780801499272
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Sociology; History and criticism; Literary Criticism; Women; General; Autobiography; Biography; Literature, Modern; Women authors
First sentence: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. recounts an anecdote about the violent fate of a little-known Francophone writer, who refused to continue living in the prison house of a language imposed by historical circumstances beyond his control: In 1915, Edmond Laforest, a prominent member of the Haitian literary movement called La Ronde, made his death a symbolic, if ironic, statement of the curious relation of the marginalized writer to the act of writing in a [European] language.