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

Author/creator Prenshaw, Peggy Whitman
Format Book
Publication InfoBaton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ©2011.
Descriptionx, 331 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Women--Southern States. --Biography. --History and criticism.
Autobiography--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Autobiography--Southern States. --History and criticism.
American prose literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
American prose literature--Southern States. --History and criticism.
Southern States--Biography. --History and criticism.

SeriesSouthern literary studies
Southern literary studies. ^A17900
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010047344
ISBN9780807137918 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN080713791X (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS366.A88 P74 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold