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Gendered resistance : the autobiographies of Simone de Beauvoir, Maya Angelou, Janet Frame and Marguerite Duras

Print Book, English, 1997
Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1997
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 176 pages ; 24 cm
9789042001091, 9042001097
946803732
Introduction. CHAPTER ONE. Simone de Beauvoir: Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée. CHAPTER TWO. Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. CHAPTER THREE. Janet Frame: To the Is-Land. CHAPTER FOUR. Marguerite Duras: L'amant. Conclusion. Bibliography.
Janet Frame and Valerie Baisnee are New Zealanders
Originally presented as the author's thesis (PhD)--University of Auckland, 1994
Includes some French extracts