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"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.

American prose literature --- Autobiography --- English prose literature --- Mothers and daughters in literature. --- Mother and child in literature. --- Motherhood in literature. --- Mothers in literature. --- Women and literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- American literature --- English literature --- Autobiographies --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- Autobiography of women --- Women's autobiography --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors. --- History and criticism --- History --- Technique --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric)

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This collection delves deeply into the power of solitude in a richly detailed exploration of the lives of women writers! The essays in this fascinating volume combine literary theory, autobiography, performance, and criticism, while opening minds and expanding concepts of women's roles both in the home and within academia along the way. Herspace: Women, Writing, and Solitude begins with a discussion of the importance of solitude to the works of a variety of writers, including Margaret Atwood, May Sarton, Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Duras, and Zora Neale Hurston, and then moves on to an

American literature --- English literature --- Feminism and literature --- Women and literature --- Authorship --- Personal space in literature. --- Solitude in literature. --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Sex differences. --- LITTERATURE AMERICAINE --- LITTERATURE ANGLAISE --- FEMMES ET LITTERATURE --- AUTEUR (ESTHETIQUE) --- ESPACE PERSONNEL --- RETRAITE ET SOLITUDE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- FEMMES ECRIVAINS --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- ETATS-UNIS --- GRANDE-BRETAGNE --- DIFFERENCES ENTRE SEXES --- DANS LA LITTERATURE