Ilha do Desterro, 2021-05, Vol.74 (2), p.59-76
2021
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- “A Living Mosaic of Human Beings”: The Life Writing of Virginia Woolf and Zitkala-Ša
- Ist Teil von
- Ilha do Desterro, 2021-05, Vol.74 (2), p.59-76
- Ort / Verlag
- Florianópolis: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, UFSC Centro de Comunicação e Expressão
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2021
- Quelle
- Electronic Journals Library
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- This essay examines life writing by English author Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and Yankton Dakota writer Zitkala-Ša (1876-1938), specifically Woolf’s memoir, “A Sketch of the Past,” written in 1939-40 and first published in Moments of Being in 1976, and Zitkala-Ša’s autobiographical essays, published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1900. This comparative study explores how both women establish selfhood amid competing pressures vying for their minds and bodies; how mothers and maternal loss shape their autobiographies; how physical and psychological place and displacement influence their life writing; and how matters of audience affect their literary self-portraits. Reading Woolf and Zitkala-Ša together yields fresh insights into the intersections of race, class, gender, and feminism in women’s writing.
- Sprache
- Englisch; Portugiesisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0101-4846, 2175-8026eISSN: 2175-8026DOI: 10.5007/2175-8026.2021.e78361Titel-ID: cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_a99ff5726eeb41cdac5efe8630b65e54
- Format
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- Schlagworte
- Allusion, American literature, Authorship, Autobiographies, Bibliographic literature, Biographies, Boarding schools, British & Irish literature, English literature, Essays, Face, Families & family life, Feminism, Gender, Ideology, Intersectionality, LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS, life writing, Literary canon, Literary criticism, Literary devices, Literary influences, LITERATURE, AMERICAN, LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES, Modern literature, Modernism, Mothers, Native literature, Native women, Professional identity, Social classes, Source materials, Women, Woolf, Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941), Writers, Writing, Zitkala-Sa (1876-1938), Zitkala-Ša