Acts of Narrative Resistance : Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Americas.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Addressing the Self: Autobiographical Metafiction -- 1 The Mirrored Self: Helena Parente Cunha's Women between Mirrors -- 2 The Self in Exile: Luisa Futoransky's Babelic Metatext -- PART TWO: From Self to Family to Nation: The Family Saga as an Autobiographical Genre -- 3 Re-membering the Nation by Remembering the Family: Ana María Shua's The Book of Memories -- 4 The Autobiographical Text as Memory Box: Nélida Piñon's The Republic of Dreams -- PART THREE: Bearing Witness to the Self and the Community: Testimonial Works by Indigenous Women -- 5 "The Life of Bobbi Lee Is about Why We Must Talk": Testimonial Literature as a Call to Action -- 6 "Part of Surviving Is through Remembering": The Ethics and Politics of Life Narratives about Indian Residential School Experiences -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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