Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 276 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0801458366
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0801438519
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9780801458361
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9780801438516
Content:
"In Thinking through the Mothers, Janet Beizer surveys modern women's biographies and contemplates alternatives to an approach based in lineage and the form of thought that emphasizes the line, the path, hierarchy, unity, resemblance, reflection, and the aesthetic--mimesis that depends on these ideas." "Through close readings of memoirs and fictions about mothers, Beizer explores how biographers of the women who came before rehearse and rewrite relationships to their own mothers biographically as they seek to appropriate the past in a hybrid genre she calls "bio-autography." Beizer seeks an alternative to women's "salvation biography" or "resurrection biography" that might resist nostalgia, be attentive to silence, and reinvent the means to represent the lives of precursors without appropriating traditional models of genealogy."--Jacket
Content:
Cat's cradle : transfiguring women's lives -- Unwrapping the mummy : in search of Kuchuk Hanem -- Writing origins : George Sand as the story of our life -- A different story : in dialogue with Huguette Bouchardeau -- One's own : reflections on motherhood, owning, and adoption -- Mothers and lovers, or the great banalities of existence : Colette's La naissance du jour -- Epilogue: Books and children (new mythologies)
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Beizer, Janet L., 1952- Thinking through the mothers Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2009
Language:
English
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