Mapping our selves : Canadian women's autobiography in English

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Label

Mapping our selves : Canadian women's autobiography in English

Title remainder

Canadian women's autobiography in English

Statement of responsibility

Helen M. Buss

Creator

• Buss, Helen M

Subject

• Autobiografische Literatur
• Autobiography -- Women authors
• Autobiography -- Women authors
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
• Canada
• Canadian prose literature -- Women authors
• Canadian prose literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic books
• Frau
• Frauenliteratur
• Autobiografieën
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors
• Vrouwelijke auteurs
• Women -- Biography
• Women -- Canada -- Biography | History and criticism
• Women and literature
• Women and literature -- Canada
• Women authors, Canadian -- Biography
• Women authors, Canadian -- Biography | History and criticism
• Kanada

Genre

• Electronic books
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

In Mapping Our Selves Helen Buss considers a broad range of autobiographical works written by Canadian women, including memoirs, journals, and conventional autobiography as well as experiments in blending a number of writing genres. She constructs her own "mapping" theory of how female identity is formed in order to illustrate how identity can be understood through the relationship between writer, text, and reader. Buss supplies a framework for her study by reviewing male-centred theories of identity and some of the ways in which theorists working with women's autobiographical accounts are changing these models. The texts selected by Buss include those by Elizabeth Simcoe, Susanna Moodie, Anna Jameson, Nellie McClung, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Emily Carr, Laura Salverson, Margaret Laurence, Dorothy Livesay, Daphne Marlatt, Mary Meigs, Maria Campbell, Kristjana Gunnars, and Aritha van Herk. Each section of the book opens with a short autobiographical introduction by Buss, allowing the reader to place the author's critical practice within the context of her sense of her own identity as critic, writer, and woman.-- publisher

Biography type

collective biography

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

810.9/492072/0971

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

PR9192.6.W6

LC item number

B87 1993eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography