Autobiographical Voices, Race; Gender; Self-Portraiture

Author

Lionnet; Fran�oise

Year

1989

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Type

BOOK

Description

Adopting a boldly innovative approach to women’s autobiographical writing, Françoise Lionnet here examines the rhetoric of self-portraiture in works by authors who are bilingual or multilingual or of mixed races or cultures. Autobiographical Voices offers incisive readings of texts by Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou, Marie Cardinal, Maryse Condé, Marie-Thérèse Humbert, Augustine, and Nietzsche.