Women’s Life Writing and the Practice of Reading, She Reads to Write Herself
is a volume of essays edited by Faaam members Valérie Baisnée-Kaye, Corinne Bigot, Nicoleta Alexoae Zagni and Claire Bazin, published by Palgrave Macmillan, in their Life Writing Series
978-3-319-75246-4
Women’s Life Writing and the Practice of Reading, She Reads to Write Herself is a volume of essays edited by Faaam members Valérie Baisnée-Kaye, Corinne Bigot, Nicoleta Alexoae Zagni and Claire Bazin, published by Palgrave Macmillan, in their Life Writing Series
ISBN 978-3-319-75246-4
https://www.palgrave.com/fr/book/9783319752464
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Valérie Baisnée-Keay
Part I : Reading, Writing & Othering/Authoring themselves 20Automatic word wrap
1 Contrapuntal Reading in Women’s Comics : Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Ellen Forney’s Marbles
Julia Watson and Sidonie Smith
2 Rimbaud’s Daughter or Ginsberg’s Son ? Patti Smith’s Literary Fathers and Mothers in Just Kids
Stephanie Genty
3 Reading and Rewriting Herself : Anna Jameson’s Literary Exploration of Canada
(1837)
Anne-Florence Quaireau
4 “The trouble with a book…” : Reading, Writing and Transgression in Jeanette Winterson’s Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal ?
Valérie Baisnée-Keay
Part II : Reading and Misreading the Canon
5 The Art of Mis-Reading : Life’s Writing in Virginia Woolf’s Essays
Nicolas-Pierre Boileau
6 Plunged in a Book : Nathalie Sarraute, Monique Wittig, Hélène Cixous and The Literature of Experience
Ann Jefferson
7 Nancy Huston’s Bad Girl : Classes de littérature : When the Autobiographer Plays Hooky
Anne-Claire Marpeau
Part III : Reading as Resistance and Emancipation
8 The Diary of Alice James : A Portrait of the Artist as a Reader
Laure de Nervaux-Gavoty
9 Reading as Emancipation in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861)
Delphine Louis-Dimitrov
10 Hannah Crafts’ Dialogizing Autobiography, The Bondwoman’s Narrative
Josette SpartacusAutomatic
11 Janet Frame’s Autobiographical Trilogy : Birth of an Oeuvre
Claire Bazin
Part IV : Reading to Write Herself in the World
12 Writing Herself as/in Reading the Others in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being (2013) rap
Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni
13 Haunting Books and Stories in Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Postethnic Family Memoir Honey and Ashes (1998)
Corinne Bigot
14 : Reading Fathers, Writing Self : Selfhood Dissolved in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Poetic Memoir I Love a Broad Margin to My Life (2011)
Joan Chiung-huei Chang
Part V Reading Herself through Oral and Written Traditions
15 Homemade Tales of Homespun Lives : The Shared Search for Identity in Culinary Memoirs p
Virginia Sherman
16 Reading Culture(s) in American Indian Women Writers’ Autobiographical Essays
Ludmila Martanovschi
17 “Books. Why ?” Staging the Reading Act in Louise Erdrich’s Autobiographical Texts
Elisabeth Bouzonviller
General Bibliography
Index