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by: Jeanne Braham
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 810.9492072
EAN: 9780807762783
ISBN: 0807762784
Label: Teachers College Press
Manufacturer: Teachers College Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 159
Publication Date: 1995-02
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Sales Rank: 2802647
Studio: Teachers College Press
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More than 40 examples of women's life writings - including memoirs, journals, letters and essays - are analyzed in this volume. Concentrating on the writer's use of metaphor and image in these narratives and the reader's empathic engagement, it explores examples from the work of familiar writers.
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Rating: - A fine resource on autobiography
"As a student, teacher, and writer of autobiography, I found this book thought-provoking and well-written. This study, which draws on--and re-examines--theories of female development as well as psychoanalytic theory, asks us to investigate the myriad ways in which memory and imagination can recombine to create a life story. This book encourages us to explore how a metaphor such as Bettina Aptheker's "braiding" can help to elucidate possible meanings within a text. It asks us to scrutinize the pact ... Read More
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