Incxludes index.

Includes bibliographical references: p. 191-199.

An Autobiocritical Preface: Writing As a Memoirist -- Ch. 1. Introduction: Memoir As a Life-Writing Discourse -- Ch. 2. Memoir with an Attitude: One Reader Reads The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts -- Ch. 3. Identity As a Balancing Act: Memoirs' Practice of Non-Sacrificial Rituals of Self-Performance -- Ch. 4. Dancing with Our Mothers: Reading and Writing Memoirs As a Mother and a Daughter -- Ch. 5. "Scenes of Language": Trauma and the Search for Form in Women's Memoirs -- Ch. 6. Joining Heart and Head: Contemporary Academic Women's Uses of the Memoir Form -- Conclusion: Repossessing a Relational Autonomy That Resists Appropriation.