Includes index. Includes bibliographical references: p. [217]-227.
Contents:
6. Gestures towards an Embodied Tradition. 1. Pioneer Women's Diaries and Journals : Letters Home/Letters to the Future -- 2. Pioneer Women's Memoirs : Preserving the Past/Rescuing the Self -- 3. Two Exemplary Early Texts : Moodie's Roughing It and Jameson's Studies and Rambles -- Part Two. On Becoming a Twentieth-Century Woman. 4. Achieving Women/Achieving Womanhood -- 5. Literary Women : Finding "The Words to Say It" -- Part Three. Finding a Counter-Discourse. 6. Gestures towards an Embodied Tradition.
Summary:
"Helen Buss considers a broad range of Canadian women's autobiographical works--including memoirs, journals, and conventional autobiography as well as experiments in blending a number of writing genres. Buss constructs her own "mapping" theory of how female identity is formed in order to illustrate how, in autobiography, identity can be understood through the relationship between writer, text, and reader"--back cover.
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