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020			_a9783319752464
028			_a; International Book Distributors _b: Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Building No.-4405/2. _c: 120073 _d: 20/01/2024
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100			_aBaisnee-Keay, Valerie.
245			_aWomen's life writing and the practice of reading _b: she reads to write herself. _c/Valerie Baisnee-Keay.
260			_a, Cham _b: Palgrave Macmillan _c, 2018.
300			_axviii, 339 pages _b: illustrations _c ; 22 cm.
365			_b6269
520			_aThis collection of essays offers a stimulating insight into the practice of reading and the relationship between reading and writing in women's life writing texts such as memoirs, autobiographies, diaries, travel logs, and graphic memoirs. It covers a great variety of writers from literary classics such as Virginia Woolf to the authors of slave narratives. Some essays focus on how literary texts help frame a narrative of the self, acting as models and counter models; others insist on the role of literature in resisting imposed gendered and ethnic identities. The essays also show that female writers use reading to deepen their relationship to the rest of the world. While reading is often represented as central to life and aesthetic experience, the collection stresses that there is no single or universal approach to reading in women?s life writing. Taking into account debates about life writing, the collection opens new fields of investigation and fully participates in current scholarly conversations in the field.
650			_aBooks and reading
650			_aWomen and literature
650			_aLibraries and Museums
650			_aAutobiography Women authors
700			_aValerie Baisnee-Keay .
942			_cBOOK
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