Representing Lives

List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction Keynote Address; L.Stanley PART I: PLACING THE SUBJECT First Person Suspect, or, The Enemy Within...; J.Swindells Korean American National Identity in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee ; H.Grice Mary Kingsley: The Female Ethnographic Self in Writing; L.Turner PART II: REVISING GENRES Traps Slyly Laid: Professing Autobiography in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig ; R.J.Ellis Lorine Niedecker: Auto-biography and Poetry; L.Jowett Travel Writing in Autobiography: Rebecca West's Journey of Self-Discovery; V.Goldsworthy 'My Poor Private Voice': Virginia Woolf and Auto/biography; A.Snaith Distinguishing Autobiography From the Novel; T.Blowers PART III: STAGING THE SELF Staging Our Selves; E.Aston Performance and Pedagogy: The 'Signifying Monkey' and the Educative I/Eye; N.Imoru Viglen's Revenge ; A.Oddey PART IV: (AUTO)BIOGRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS Tupperware Ladies; V.Gill-Brown The Discourse of Selfhood: Oral Autobiographies as Narrative Sites for Constructions of Identity; E.Barát From Shaping Imperialism to Sharing Imprisonment: The Politics of the Personal in South African Female Missionary Biography; D.Gaitskell Constructing the Subject? Emmy Ball-Henning's Autobiographical Texts; C.Schönfeld PART V: RECOVERING LIVES - REVISING HISTORY 'My Mind on Paper': Anne Lister and the Construction of Lesbian Identity; A.Rowanchild Promoting the Self: The Representational Strategies of Georgina Weldon; H.Nicholson Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928): Suffragette, Militant Feminist and Champion of Womanhood; J.Purvis 'The Narrow Margin of Long Days of Toil': Class and Education in the Writings of Ruth Slate; T.G.Ashplant PART VI: MATRILINEALITY One, Two, Three: Sylvia Plath's Verse Dramas; N.Shaughnessy Double Vision: Mother(s) in Simone De Beauvoir's Mémoirs d'une Jeunne Fille Rangée (Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter) and Une Mort Trés Douce (A Very Easy Death); A.Fell The Autobiographical Voice in Lily Braun's Fiction; N.Brice Auto/biography - Auto/Mythology: Mina Loy's Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose ; A.Goody Index