Buss Helen M <br/><br/>
Repossessing the world :  reading memoirs by contemporary women / 
Helen M. Buss. 
 - Waterloo, Ont. :  Wilfrid Laurier University Press,  c2002. 
 - 259 p.  18cm. 
 - Life writing series .
<br/><br/> Incxludes index. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references: p. 191-199. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>088920408X (bound) 0889204101 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Autobiography--Women authors<br/>Women--Biography--History and criticism<br/>Prose literature--History and criticism--20th century
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>CT25