Lionnet, Françoise.

Autobiographical Voices : Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture / Françoise Lionnet. - 1 online resource (280 pages). - Reading women writing . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Introduction: The politics and aesthetics of Metissage -- Augustine's Confessions : poetics of harmony, or the ideal reader in the text -- Silence and circularity in Ecce homo : "Und so erzähle ich mir mein Leben" -- Autoethnography : the an-archic style of Dust tracks on a road -- Con artists and storytellers : Maya Angelou's problematic sense of audience -- Happiness deferred : Maryse Conde's Heremakhonon and the failure of enunciation -- Privileged difference and the possibility of emancipation : The words to say it and A l'autre bout de moi -- Anamnesis and Utopia : self-portrait of the web maker in A l'autre bout de moi.

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Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Autobiografieën.
Women--Biography.
Women and literature.
Self in literature.
Literature, Modern.
Biography as a literary form.
Autobiography--Women authors.
Autobiography.
17.86 literary genres, theory of genre.
autobiography (genre)
biographies (literary works)
Femmes et litterature.
Écrits de femmes autobiographiques.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
Écrits de femmes autobiographiques--Histoire et critique.
Femmes--Biographies--Histoire et critique.
Autobiographie.
Biographie (Genre litteraire)
Litterature--Histoire et critique.
Literatura moderna--Historia y crítica
Mujeres--Biografía--Historia y crítica
Autobiographies as Topic
Biographies as Topic
Autobiography--Women authors--History and criticism.
Autobiography.
Women and literature.
Biography as a literary form.
Self in literature.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.
Women--Biography--History and criticism.
Autobiography--Women authors.


Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.