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Life writing is the most flexible and open term available for autobiographical fragments and other kinds of autobiographical-seeming texts. It includes the conventional genres of autobiography, journals, memoirs, letters, testimonies, and metafiction, and in earlier definitions it included biography. It is a way of seeing literary and other texts that neither objectifies nor subjectifies the nature of a particular cultural truth.Marlene Kadar has brought together an interdisciplinary and comparative collection of critical and theoretical essays by diverse Canadian scholars, most of whom are women engaged in larger projects in life writing or in archival research. In the more practical pieces the author has discerned a pattern in autobiographical text, or subtext, that has come to revolutionize the life, the critic's approach, or the discipline itself. In the theoretical pieces, authors make cogent proposals to view a body of literature in a new way, often in order to incorporate feminist visions or humanistic interpretations.The contributors represent a broad range of scholars from disciplines within the humanities and beyond. Collectively they provide an impressive overview of a growing field of scholarship.

Autobiography --- Autobiographical fiction --- Women --- Literature, Modern --- Women and literature. --- Self in literature. --- Women authors. --- History and criticism. --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Autobiography of women --- Women's autobiography --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Biography --- Literature

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'Het beschrijven van een levensgeschiedenis' is misschien wel de meest voor de hand liggende interpretatie van de autobiografische tekst. In deze bundel brengt Kadar een aantal interdisciplinaire en vergelijkende essays samen van auteurs die betrokken zijn bij archivarisch onderzoek naar de verschillende manieren waarop tot hiertoe aan deze levensgeschiedenissen vorm is gegeven. Zij pleiten voor een nieuwe interpretatie van autobiografische geschriften, waarbij rekening wordt gehouden met feministische en humanistische invalshoeken.

Thematology --- Writers --- Autobiography --- Women's literature --- Biography --- Book --- Personal documents --- Wollstonecraft, Mary --- Atwood, Margaret --- Great Britain

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What comes to mind when we hear that a friend or colleague is studying unpublished documents in a celebrated author's archive? We might assume that they are reading factual documents or, at the very least, straightforward accounts of the truth about someone or some event. But are they? Working in Women's Archives is a collection of essays that poses this question and offers a variety of answers. Any assumption readers may have about the archive as a neutral library space or about the archival document as a simple and pure text is challenged. In essays discussing ce

Femmes ecrivains canadiennes-anglaises --- Écrits de femmes canadiens-anglais --- Women authors, Canadian (English) --- Canadian literature (English) --- English literature --- Canadian literature --- Women authors, Canadian --- Historie et critique --- Biographies --- Histoire et critique. --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- Biography --- History and criticism. --- Women authors. --- Authors, Women --- Female authors --- Women as authors --- Authors --- Women and literature --- Canadian women authors --- Theory, etc. --- Women Authors --- Canadian Literature --- Literary Criticism

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Images, Photographic --- Photography --- Social history --- Social influence --- History --- Social aspects