TY - BOOK ID - 77887332 TI - The voice of the mother : embedded maternal narratives in twentieth-century women's autobiographies PY - 2000 SN - 9780585312590 0585312591 0809322668 9780809322664 PB - Carbondale, Illinois : Southern Illinois University Press, DB - UniCat KW - American prose literature KW - Autobiography KW - English prose literature KW - Mothers and daughters in literature. KW - Mother and child in literature. KW - Motherhood in literature. KW - Mothers in literature. KW - Women and literature KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - American literature KW - English literature KW - Autobiographies KW - Egodocuments KW - Memoirs KW - Biography as a literary form KW - Autobiography of women KW - Women's autobiography KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism. KW - Women authors. KW - History and criticism KW - History KW - Technique KW - Rhetoric KW - Discourse analysis, Narrative KW - Narratees (Rhetoric) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77887332 AB - "In The Voice of the Mother, Jo Malin argues that many twentieth-century autobiographies by women contain an intertext, an embedded narrative, which is a biography of the writer/daughter's mother." "Analyzing this narrative practice, Malin examines ten texts by women who seem particularly compelled to tell their mothers' stories. Each author is, in fact, able to write her own autobiography only by using a narrative form that contains her mother's story at its core. These texts raise interesting questions about autobiography as a genre and about a feminist writing practice that resists and subverts the dominant literary tradition." "Malin theorizes a hybrid form of autobiographical narrative containing an embedded narrative of the mother. This alternative narrative practice - in which the daughter attempts to talk both to her mother and about her - is equally an autobiography and a biography rather than one or the other. The technique is marked by a breakdown of subject/object categories as well as auto/biographical dichotomies of genre. Each text contains a "self" that is more plural than singular, yet neither."--Jacket. ER -