Representing Lives

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxiv

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2. Keynote Address

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Is There Life in the Contact Zone? Auto/Biographical Practices and the Field of Representation in Writing Past Lives

      • Liz Stanley

      Pages 3-30

3. Placing the Subject

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

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   2. First Person Suspect, or, the Enemy Within …

      • Julia Swindells

      Pages 33-42

   3. Korean American National Identity in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee

      • Helena Grice

      Pages 43-52

   4. Mary Kingsley: the Female Ethnographic Self in Writing

      • Lynnette Turner

      Pages 53-62

4. Revising Genres

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Traps Slyly Laid: Professing Autobiography in Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig

      • R. J. Ellis

      Pages 65-76

   3. Lorine Niedecker: Auto/biography and Poetry

      • Lorna Jowett

      Pages 77-86

   4. Travel Writing as Autobiography: Rebecca West’s Journey of Self-Discovery

      • Vesna Goldsworthy

      Pages 87-95

   5. ‘My Poor Private Voice’: Virginia Woolf and Auto/Biography

      • Anna Snaith

      Pages 96-104

   6. The Textual Contract: Distinguishing Autobiography from the Novel

      • Tonya Blowers

      Pages 105-116

5. Staging the Self

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Staging Our Selves

      • Elaine Aston

      Pages 119-128

   3. Performance and Pedagogy: the ‘Signifying Monkey’ and the Educative I/Eye

      • Nike Imoru

      Pages 129-137

   4. Viglen’s Revenge

      • Alison Oddey

      Pages 138-151

6. (Auto) Biographical Representations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Tupperware Ladies: a Story of Women and Tupperware

      • Vanessa Gill-Brown

      Pages 155-164

   3. The Discourse of Selfhood: Oral Autobiographies as Narrative Sites for Constructions of Identity

      • Erzsébet Barát

      Pages 165-173

Representing Lives: Women and Auto/biography is an eclectic and comprehensive collection of essays, exploring contemporary issues and debates concerning women's auto-biographical representations from a range of disciplinary perspectives. With authoritative contributions from a number of prominent figures in the field of women's auto/biography, as well as innovative new voices, this volume offers a broad and contemporary lens on the issues and debates relevant to the act of representing women's lives. Drawing on a variety of theoretical frameworks and discussing theatre, literature, popular culture and women in history, these essays help to map out some of the new intellectual spaces inhabited by feminist scholarship in the 1990s.

• culture
• drama
• identity
• Narrative
• national identity
• poetry
• women

• Nottingham Trent University, UK

  Alison Donnell, Pauline Polkey

T. G. ASHPLANT teaches Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores University ELAINE ASTON Senior Lecturer, Theatre Studies, Loughborough University ERZSÉBET BARAT Lecturer, Linguistics and Gender Studies, Attila Jozsef University, Szeged, Hungary NICOLA BRICE Birbeck College, University of London TONYA BLOWERS Lecturer, English Studies, Oxford Brookes University R. J. ELLIS Reader in English and American Literature, Nottingham Trent University ALISON FELL Department of French Studies, University of Birmingham DEBORAH GAITSKELL Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies VANESSA GILL-BROWN Lecturer in Design Studies, Nottingham Trent University VESNA GOLDSWORTHY Lecturer in English Literature, Birbeck College, University of London ALEX GOODY Ph.D. University of Leeds HELENA GRICE teaches at University of Wales, Aberystwyth NIKE IMORU Lecturer in Drama, University of Hull LORNA JOWETT Lecturer in American Studies, Nene University College, Northampton HELEN NICHOLSON Departmentof Drama, University of Manchester ALISON ODDEY Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, University of Kent JUNE PURVIS Professor of Women's and Gender History, University of Portsmouth ANIRA ROWANCHILD Literature Department, The Open University CHRISTIANE SCHÖNFELD Lecturer, University of Wales, Lampeter NICOLA SHAUGHNESSY Senior Lecturer in Drama and English, University College, Worcester ANNA SNAITH Lecturer in English, Anglia Polytechnic University LIZ STANLEY Professor of Sociology, Director of Women's Studies, University of Manchester JULIA SWINDELLS Director of English Studies, Homerton College, Cambridge LYNNETTE TURNER Lecturer in English, Oxford Brookes University.

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