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

Author: Jo Malin
Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Malin, Jo, 1942-
Voice of the mother.
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2000
(OCoLC)606538844
Material Type: Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jo Malin
ISBN: 0809322668 9780809322664
OCLC Number: 41628141
Description: x, 120 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Conversations about Space and Houses --
Conversations about Intimacy, Bodies, and Sexuality --
Conversations about Material Things, Longing, and Envy --
Conversations about Storytelling and Voice --
Coda: Babies and Books: Motherhood and Writing.
Responsibility: Jo Malin.
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"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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