There are many different ways to say "I." This book examines the
ways in which four contemporary women writers (Helene Cixous, Assia
Djebar, Gisele Halimi, and Julia Kristeva) have written their
autobiographical "I" as a plural concept. These women refuse the
individual "I" of traditional autobiography by developing narrative
strategies that multiply the voices in their texts. They similarly
cast doubt upon current theorizations of the female self in
autobiography by questioning the possibility of plural selfhood in
narrative and its seemingly cathartic effects. Each writer
approaches autobiography as a site of catharsis for a specific
trauma and each tells her story through multiple narrative voices
in order to find atonement. The women's experiments with narrative
voice are designed to render the female self accurately in
narrative, but they simultaneously expose the difficulties inherent
in writing the self plurally. Taken together, the women who form
the corpus of this study move beyond critics' current
understandings of textual representations of selfhood. Informed by
postcolonial and feminist approaches to selfhood, this book charts
the history of theories of autobiography and plots new ways of
imagining this genre. This cross-section of international writers
calls for a new understanding of the inscription of female identity
in narrative; not as a binary of individual versus plural selfhood,
but as a cluster of categories of identity beyond "I" and "we."
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