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The life writing of otherness : Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston, and Winterson / Lauren Rusk.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Literary criticism and cultural theoryPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (x, 197 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781136537363
  • 1136537368
  • 9780203055717
  • 0203055713
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Life writing of otherness.DDC classification:
  • 828/.910809492 22
LOC classification:
  • PR808.A9 R87 2002eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Ch. 1. Reading the Life Writing of Otherness: A Critical Synthesis -- Ch. 2. The Common Life of Uncommon Women: Woolf's A Room of One's Own -- Ch. 3. The Personal Passion of Collective Selfhood: Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son -- Ch. 4. The Hard-Won Harmonics of Selfhood: Kingston's The Woman Warrior -- Ch. 5. The Refusal of Otherness: Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
Summary: Focusing on innovative works by Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston and Winterson, the author analyzes how they each represent the self as unique, collectively ""other, "" and inclusively human, and how these conflicting aspects of selfhood interact.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-180) and index.

Ch. 1. Reading the Life Writing of Otherness: A Critical Synthesis -- Ch. 2. The Common Life of Uncommon Women: Woolf's A Room of One's Own -- Ch. 3. The Personal Passion of Collective Selfhood: Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son -- Ch. 4. The Hard-Won Harmonics of Selfhood: Kingston's The Woman Warrior -- Ch. 5. The Refusal of Otherness: Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.

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Focusing on innovative works by Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston and Winterson, the author analyzes how they each represent the self as unique, collectively ""other, "" and inclusively human, and how these conflicting aspects of selfhood interact.

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