Part I

Assignment:

Robert Elbaz, Changing Nature of the Self

Part 2

Gender issues in self representation

Personal Narrative Group, ed., Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives (Bloomington, 1989)

Diane Wood Middlebrook and Peter Stansky, Revealing Lives: Autobiography, Biography and gender (Albany, 1990) CT21 R47 1990

Nicole Ward Jouve, White Woman Speaks with Forked Tongue: Criticism as Autobiography (London, 1991)

Liz Stanley, The Auto/biographical I: The Theory and Practice of Feminist Autobiography (Manchester, 1992) PR788 W65 S7 1992

Magdalene Heuser, Autobiographien von Frauen (TUbingen, 1996) PT35 U61 v. 83

Laurie Corbin, The Mother Mirror: Self-Representation and the Mother-Daughter Relation (NY, 1996) PQ307 A65 C65 1996

Diane Cousineau, Letters and Labyrinths; Women Writing/Cultural Codes (Newark, 1997) PR119 C74 1997

Martin Danahay, A Community of one: Masculine Autobiography and Autonomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Albany,,1993) PR778 A9 D34 1993

Katherine Goodman, Dis/closures: Women's Autobiography in Germany between 1790 and 1914 (NY, 1986) PT167 G66 1986

Barbara Kosta, Recasting Autobiography: Women's Counterfictions in Contempgrary German Literature and Film (Ithaca, 1994) PT735 K68 1994

Sidonie Smith, Subjectivity, Identity and the body: Women's autobiographical Practices in the Twentieth Century (Bloomington, 1993) CT25 S6 1993
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Linda Anderson, Women and Autobiography in the Twentieth Century: Remembered Futures (London, 1997) PR808 W65 A53 1997

Suzanne L Bunkers and Cynthia A Huff, Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women's Diaries (Amherst, 1996) PS409 157 1996

Nancy K. Miller, "Representing others: Gender and the Subjects of Autobiography," in Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 6 (1994), pp. lff.

Pamela Cotterill and Gayle Letherby, "Weaving Stories: Personal Auto/biographies in Feminist Research," in Sociology 27 (1993), pp. 67ff.

Marianne Gooze, "The Definitions of Self and Form in Feminist Autobiography," in Women's Studies 21 (1992), pp. 411ff

Mary Favret, Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters (Cambridge, 1993) PR911 F38 1993

Diane Cousineau, Letters and Labyrinths: Women Writing/ Cultural Codes (Newark, 1997) PR119 C74 1997

Elizabeth C. Goldsmith, Writing the Female Voice: Essays on Epistolary Literature (Boston, 1989) PN6131 W75 1989