This collection of twelve essays discusses the principles and
practices of women's autobiographical writing in the United States,
England, and France from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.
Employing feminist and poststructuralist methodologies, the essays
examine a wide range of private life writings -- letters, journals,
diaries, memoirs, pedagogical texts, and fictional and factual
autobiographies. The concepts of theory and practice -- as opposing
and mutually exclusive methodologies, as focal points for
conflicting interpretations, and finally as complementary
approaches to the study of literature -- are central to this
collection.
"The Private Self" explores the links between the historical
devaluation of women's writings and the cultural definitions of
women that have constrained their writing practices and excluded
them from the canon of traditional autobiographical texts.
Collectively, these essays expose the cultural biases that derive
from notions of selfhood defined by a white, masculine, and
Christian experience. In an effort to revise our prevailing concept
of autobiography, these essays deal with differences of race,
class, religion, sexual orientation, and gender.
Discussed here are writings by more than two dozen women including
Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson, Alice James, Virginia Woolf,
Charlotte Forten Grimke, Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou, Sophie
Kovalevsky, Anais Nin, Hilda Doolittle, and Simone de Beauvoir. The
work of these writers reveals a split between public and private
self-representations, and it is the notion of a private self
expressed through women's autobiographical writings that forms the
link among all the essays.
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