Moravian Women's Memoirs

Moravian Women's Memoirs
Author:
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1997-05-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780815603979

"Moravian Women's Memoirs is made up of the autobiographical writings of thirty of the women who lived in the major North American Moravian settlement of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, at varying points in the eighteenth century. What follows are their memoirs, fascinating documents that contain insights into the lives of the women and men who lived in the Moravian communities in North America. . . . These Moravian women's memoirs reveal the intersection of the private and the public spheres of their lives. They are records of their spiritual paths in a world that in most cases challenged the bounds of knowledge inherited from their parents."—from the Preface

Navigating Loss in Women's Contemporary Memoir

Navigating Loss in Women's Contemporary Memoir
Author: A. Prodromou
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2015-06-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137482923

Navigating Loss in Women's Contemporary Memoir traces the grief process through the lives of contemporary women writers to show how its complex, multi-layered nature can encourage us towards new understandings of loss.

African American Women's Rhetoric

African American Women's Rhetoric
Author: Deborah F. Atwater
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780739121764

African American Women's Rhetoric: The Search for Dignity, Personhood, and Honor deals with the rhetoric of African American women from enslavement to current times, examining slave narratives and contemporary print, music, and other media surrounding the lives of African American women. Covering a variety of specific women and their rhetoric within the context of a historical period, the book provides central themes and strategic and social concerns of African American women and their environment. It frames, in some, cases, the rhetoric of contemporary women in politics and other fields of prominence--including Condoleeza Rice and Barbara Lee, among others. Deborah F. Atwater explores how African women today who engage in speech in the public sphere come from a historical line of active women who have been outspoken in politics, education, business, and various social contexts; heretofore, these women have not been studied in a comprehensive manner. Specifically, how do these African American women discuss themselves, and--more importantly--how do they represent who they are in various communities? How do these women persuade their diverse audiences to value what they say and who they are?African American Women's Rhetoric will be an invaluable contribution to upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses in Rhetoric, African American Rhetoric, History, and Women's Studies.

Iranian Women in the Memoir

Iranian Women in the Memoir
Author: Emira Derbel
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2017-05-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1443892661

This book investigates the various reasons behind the elevation of the memoir, previously categorized as a marginalized form of life writing that denudes the private space of women, especially in Western Asian countries such as Iran. Through a comparative investigation of Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis (1) and (2), the book examines the way both narrative and graphic memoirs offer possibilities for Iranian women to reclaim new territory, transgress a post-traumatic revolution, and reconstruct a new model of womanhood that evades socio-political and religious restrictions. Exile is conceptualized as empowering rather than a continued status of loss and disillusionment, and the liminality of both women writers turns into a space of artistic production. The book also resists the New Orientalist scope within which Reading Lolita in Tehran, more than Persepolis, has been misread. In order to reject these allegations, this work sheds light on the representation of Iranian women in Reading Lolita in Tehran, not as weak victims held captive by a totalitarian version of Islam, but as active participants rewriting their stories through the liberating power of the memoir. The comparative approach between narrative and comic memoirs is a fruitful way of displaying similar experiences of disillusionment, loss, return, and exile through different techniques. The common thread uniting both memoirs is their zeal to reclaim Iranian women’s agency and strength over subservience and passivity.

Companion to Women's Historical Writing

Companion to Women's Historical Writing
Author: M. Spongberg
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 729
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1349724688

This A-Z reference work provides the first comprehensive reference guide to the wide range of historical writing with which women have been involved, particularly since the Renaissance. The Companion covers biographical writing, travelogue and historical fictions, broadening the concept of history to include the forms of writing with which women have historically engaged. The focus is on women writing in English internationally, but historical and historiographical traditions from beyond the English-speaking world are also examined. Brief biographies of individual writers are included.

The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong

The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong
Author: Hyegyŏnggung Hong Ssi
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1996-04-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780520200555

Lady Hyegyong married Crown Prince Sado when they were both nine years old. The prince descended into violence and insanity in adulthood, and was killed by his father. Lady Hyegyong chose to live, and her son was later crowned king. She wrote the collected four memoirs in an attempt to weather the storms of political intrigue surrounding her. Contains introductory material, a glossary, and genealogical tables. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing 1900–1950

Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing 1900–1950
Author: Ashlie Sponenberg
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2015-12-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230379478

This study provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging resource which includes information on many previously neglected British women writers (novelists, poets, dramatists, autobiographers) and topics. It provides contextualizing material, with concise introductions to related topics, including organizations, movements, genres and publications.

British Women's Life Writing, 1760-1840

British Women's Life Writing, 1760-1840
Author: A. Culley
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2014-07-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137274220

British Women's Life Writing, 1760-1840 brings together for the first time a wide range of print and manuscript sources to demonstrate women's innovative approach to self-representation. It examines canonical writers, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson, and Helen Maria Williams, amongst others.

The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English

The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English
Author: Lorna Sage
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 708
Release: 1999-09-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521668132

An alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present.

Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies

Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies
Author: Nawar Al-Hassan Golley
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2003-11-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780292705456

The author applies a number of Western critical theories to Arab women's autobiographical works, including Marxism, feminism, colonial discourse & narrative theory, & at the same time interrogates these theories against chosen texts to test their adequacy for analysis of writings from other cultures.