The voice of the mother : embedded maternal narratives in twentieth-century women's autobiographies /

The voice of the mother : embedded maternal narratives in twentieth-century women's autobiographies /

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Author / Creator:	Malin, Jo, 1942-
Imprint:	Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 120 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Autobiography -- Women authors. English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. English prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Mothers and daughters in literature. Mother and child in literature. Motherhood in literature. Mothers in literature. Narration (Rhetoric) American prose literature. American prose literature -- Women authors. Autobiography -- Women authors. English prose literature. English prose literature -- Women authors. Mother and child in literature. Motherhood in literature. Mothers and daughters in literature. Mothers in literature. Narration (Rhetoric) Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11111144

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ISBN:	0585312591 9780585312590 0809322668 9780809322664
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-114) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 In English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	"In The Voice of the Mother, Jo Malin argues that many twentieth-century autobiographies by women contain an intertext, an embedded narrative, which is a biography of the writer/daughter's mother." "Analyzing this narrative practice, Malin examines ten texts by women who seem particularly compelled to tell their mothers' stories. Each author is, in fact, able to write her own autobiography only by using a narrative form that contains her mother's story at its core. These texts raise interesting questions about autobiography as a genre and about a feminist writing practice that resists and subverts the dominant literary tradition." "Malin theorizes a hybrid form of autobiographical narrative containing an embedded narrative of the mother. This alternative narrative practice - in which the daughter attempts to talk both to her mother and about her - is equally an autobiography and a biography rather than one or the other. The technique is marked by a breakdown of subject/object categories as well as auto/biographical dichotomies of genre. Each text contains a "self" that is more plural than singular, yet neither."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Malin, Jo, 1942- Voice of the mother. Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, 2000 0809322668
Standard no.:	99975533042