Gendered Resistance: The Autobiographies of Simone de Beauvoir, Maya Angelou, Janet Frame and Marguerite Duras

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Rodopi, 1997 - 176 էջ
Four major women's autobiographies of the twentieth century are discussed together here for the first time. Valérie Baisnée reinterprets the autobiographical writing of Simone De Beauvoir, Maya Angelou, Janet Frame and Marguerite Duras, finding some striking similarities in these women's resistance to a conservative order. Deploying a variety of theoretical approaches, from linguistic to Marxist, Baisnée endeavours to break the restrictive patterns of author-centred studies, to go beyond simple oppositions between truth and fiction, and to dispense with the facile interpretation of these texts as confessional.
For Valérie Baisnée, Autobiography is meant to represent not the true but the official version of a life, signed by the author herself and revered as hagiography by the public. ... Instead of analysing women's autobiographies as confessional, it is possible to see this mode of discourse as a means to counteract the effect of exposure of women's private lives. By revealing their past, however painful it may be, the four autobiographers studied in this book also enhance their present strength, and therefore underline the political nature of the autobiography.
 

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INTRODUCTION
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To the IsLand
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CHAPTER FOUR
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Portrait of the Protagonist as a Young Adventuress
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CONCLUSION
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ՎերնագիրGendered Resistance: The Autobiographies of Simone de Beauvoir, Maya Angelou, Janet Frame and Marguerite Duras
Հատոր 17 of Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen Und Vergleichende
Հատոր 17 of Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, ISSN 0929-6999
ՀեղինակValérie Baisnée
EditorValérie Baisnée
ՀրատարակիչRodopi, 1997
ISBN9042001097, 9789042001091
Length176 էջ
  
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