The self and the world. Aspects of the aesthetics and politics of contemporary North American literary memoir by women
Loading...
Date
2018
Advisor
Editor
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
Title alternative
Abstract
"The self and the world: aspects of the aesthetics and politics of contemporary North American
literary memoir by women" constitutes an attempt at a selective, but far-ranging analysis
of the aesthetics and politics of memoirs written by Canadian and US women of different racial
and ethnic backgrounds since 1990. The study focuses on memoirs by experienced writers,
consciously deploying in their texts a number of literary, visual and paratextual devices.
The aim is to illuminate the ways in which they make sense of their experience and how they
endow it with a particular narrative shape, with special focus on the implicit and explicit
ideological baggage of the memoirs. An important aspect of the project is the critical reflection
on the nature of memory that emerges from the selected texts in connection with both individual
and collective history. Special focus falls on configurations of gender and
race/ethnicity in the contexts of the two multicultural North American societies, and their influence
on the process of self-fashioning.
Description
Sponsor
The National Science Centre Poland (under grant UMO-2012/05/B/HS2/04004)
Keywords
memoir, life writing, memoir by women writers, female memoir in Canada, female memoir in the US
Citation
ISBN
978-83-232-3339-8