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Author:

Prenshaw, Peggy Whitman.

Title:

Composing selves : Southern women and autobiography / Peggy Whitman Prenshaw.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

x, 331 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women--Southern States--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Southern States--Biography--History and criticism.
Autobiography--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Autobiography--Southern States--History and criticism.
American prose literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American prose literature--Southern States--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Region, genre, gender -- A feminist life narrative in a traditionalist society : Belle Kearney -- A distanced Southern girlhood : Helen Keller and Anne Walter Fearn -- Wifehood narratives : Mary Hamilton and Agnes Grinstead Anderson -- Belles, wives, and public lives, part I : Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair -- Belles, wives, and public lives, part II : Virginia Foster Durr, Lindy Claiborne Boggs, and Lylah Scarborough Barber -- Testimonial narratives of racial consciousness : Katharine DuPre Lumpkin and Lillian Smith -- Narratives of a writing life, part I : Ellen Glasgow and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- Narratives of a writing life, part II : Zora Neale Hurston and Bernice Kelly Harris -- Modes of autobiographical narrative : Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Spencer, and Ellen Douglas -- Coda: Reflections on a literary genre.

Series:

Southern literary studies

ISBN:

080713791X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807137918 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)679940468

LCCN:

2010047344

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)