Thinking Through the Mothers : Reimagining Women's Biographies.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (292 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Translations -- Prologue -- Cat's Cradle -- Unwrapping the Mummy -- Writing Origins -- A Different Story -- One's Own -- Mothers and Lovers, or the Great Banalities of Existence -- Epilogue -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
If questions of subjectivity and identification are at stake in all biographical writing, they are particularly trenchant for contemporary women biographers of women. Often, their efforts to exhume buried lives in hope of finding spiritual foremothers.
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Women -- Biography -- History and criticism. Women -- Biography -- Authorship. Biography as a literary form.