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| Genre/Form: | Biography Theory etc Archives Théorie, etc |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Working in women's archives. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2001 (OCoLC)606477146 Online version: Working in women's archives. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2001 (OCoLC)607845187 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Helen M Buss; Marlene Kadar |
| ISBN: | 0889203415 9780889203419 |
| OCLC Number: | 43284258 |
| Description: | v, 120 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / Helen M. Buss -- Locating Female Subjects in the Archives / Carole Gerson -- Constructing Female Subjects in the Archive : A Reading of Three Versions of One Woman's Subjectivity / Helen M. Buss -- Researching Eighteenth-Century Maritime Women Writers : Deborah How Cottnam-- A Case Study / Gwendolyn Davies -- "A Dusting Off" : An Anecdotal Account of Editing the L. M. Montgomery Journals / Mary Rubio -- Reading My Grandmother's Life from Her Letters : Constance Kerr Sissons from Adolescence to Engagement / Rosalind Kerr -- Personal Papers : Putting Lives on the Line-- Working with the Marian Engel Archive / Christl Verduyn -- An Epistolary Constellation : Trotsky, Kahlo, Birney ; Afterword / Marlene Kadar. |
| Series Title: | Life writing series. |
| Responsibility: | Helen M. Buss and Marlene Kadar, editors. |
Abstract:
"What Comes to mind when we hear that a friend or colleague is studying unpublished documents in a celebrated author's archive? We might assume that they are reading factual documents or, at the very least, straightforward accounts of the truth about someone or some event. But are they?" "Working in Women's Archives is a collection of essays that poses this question and offers a variety of answers. Any assumption readers may have about the archive as a neutral library space or about the archival document as a simple and pure text is challenged." "In essays discussing celebrated Canadian authors such as Marian Engel and L. M. Montgomery, as well as lesser-known writers such as Constance Kerr Sissons and Marie Rose Smith, Working in Women's Archives persuades us that our research methods must be revised and refined in order to create a scholarly place for a greater variety of archival subjects and to accurately represent them in current feminist and poststructuralist theories."--BOOK JACKET.
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