Representing Lives

by Donnell, Alison; Polkey, Pauline

• ISBN13: 9780333750766
• ISBN10: 0333750764
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Table of Contents

List of Figures	x
Acknowledgements	xi
Notes on the Contributors	xv
Introduction	xx
Alison Donnell
Pauline Polkey
Keynote Address	1	(2)
Is There Life in the Contact Zone? Auto/biographical Practices and the Field of Representation in Writing Past Lives	3	(28)
Liz Stanley
Part I Placing the Subject	31	(32)
First Person Suspect, or, the Enemy Within...	33	(10)
Julia Swindells
Korean American National Identity in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee	43	(10)
Helena Grice
Mary Kingsley: the Female Ethnographic Self in Writing	53	(10)
Lynnette Turner
Part II Revising Genres	63	(54)
Traps Slyly Laid: Professing Autobiography in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig	65	(12)
R. J. Ellis
Lorine Niedecker: Auto/biography and Poetry	77	(10)
Lorna Jowett
Travel Writing as Autobiography: Rebecca West's Journey of Self-Discovery	87	(9)
Vesna Goldsworthy
`My Poor Private Voice': Virginia Woolf and Auto/biography	96	(9)
Anna Snaith
The Textual Contract: Distinguishing Autobiography from the Novel	105	(12)
Tonya Blowers
Part III Staging the Self	117	(36)
Staging Our Selves	119	(10)
Elaine Aston
Performance and Pedagogy: the `Signifying Monkey' and the Educative I/Eye	129	(9)
Nike Imoru
Viglen's Revenge	138	(15)
Alison Oddey
Part IV (Auto) Biographical Representations	153	(44)
Tupperware Ladies: a Story of Women and Tupperware	155	(10)
Vanessa Gill-Brown
The Discourse of Selfhood: Oral Autobiographies as Narrative Sites for Constructions of Identity	165	(9)
Erzsebet Barat
From Shaping Imperialism to Sharing Imprisonment: the Politics of the Personal in South African Female Missionary Biography	174	(13)
Deborah Gaitskell
Constructing the Subject? Emmy Ball-Hennings's Autobiographical Texts	187	(10)
Christiane Schonfeld
Part V Recovering Lives -- Revising History	197	(42)
`My Mind on Paper': Anne Lister and the Construction of Lesbian Identity	199	(9)
Anira Rowanchild
Promoting Herself: the Representational Strategies of Georgina Weldon	208	(10)
Helen Nicholson
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858--1928): Suffragette, Militant Feminist and Champion of Womanhood	218	(10)
June Purvis
`The Narrow Margin of Long Days of Toil': Class and Education in the Writings of Ruth Slate	228	(11)
T. G. Ashplant
Part VI Matrilineality	239	(42)
One, Two, Three: Sylvia Plath's Verse Dramas	241	(10)
Nicola Shaughnessy
Double Vision: Mother(s) in Simone De Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter and A Very Easy Death	251	(9)
Alison Fell
The Autobiographical Voice in Lily Braun's Fiction	260	(10)
Nicola Brice
Auto/biography/Auto-mythology: Mina Loy's Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose	270	(11)
Alex Goody
Index	281