Women's Life Writing And Imagined Communities by Cynthia Huff

This collection of 15 essays with a critical introduction explores how women's life-writing reflects and shapes a community's values - whether that community is global, national, or local. The authors examine women's autobiographical texts from a variety of perspectives, including feminism, cultural studies, postmodernism, and New Historicism. The material analyzed includes novels, memoirs, autobiographies, web pages, online zines, letters, religious records, anthologies, and deportation narratives. This volume was previously published as a special issue of the journal Prose Studies.