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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Malin, Jo, 1942- Voice of the mother. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2000 (OCoLC)606538844 |
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| 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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Abstract:
"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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- American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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- American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- English prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Women and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century.
- Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.
- Mothers and daughters in literature.
- Mother and child in literature.
- Motherhood in literature.
- Mothers in literature.
- Écrits de femmes autobiographiques.
- Prose anglaise -- Histoire et critique.
- Prose américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
- Prose anglaise -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
- Mères et filles dans la littérature.
- Mère et enfant dans la littérature.
- Maternité dans la littérature.
- Mères dans la littérature.
- Narration.
- Écrits de femmes américains -- Histoire et critique.
- Écrits de femmes anglais -- Histoire et critique.
- Frauenliteratur
- Familie
- Geschichte 1900-2000.
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