Autobiographical Inscriptions Form, Personhood, and the American Woman Writer of Color |
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| Author:
| Rodriguez, Barbara |
| Series title: | W. E. B. du Bois Institute Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-512341-8 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1999 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $200.00 |
Book Description:
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By engaging current approaches to the genre, Autobiographical Inscriptions breaks new ground in the field of identity studies. The book is centered in a discussion of the ways that innovations of form and structure contain and bolster arguments for personhood articulated by Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko, Adrienne Kennedy, and Cecile Pineda. Organized thematically, with each chapter focusingon central questions of form,...
More DescriptionBy engaging current approaches to the genre, Autobiographical Inscriptions breaks new ground in the field of identity studies. The book is centered in a discussion of the ways that innovations of form and structure contain and bolster arguments for personhood articulated by Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko, Adrienne Kennedy, and Cecile Pineda. Organized thematically, with each chapter focusingon central questions of form, this work pairs canonized texts with less well-known works, reading autobiographical works across cultural contexts, historical periods, and artistic media, and illustrating thestunning range of formal strategies available to and adopted by the American woman writer of color.