Autobiographics (1994)

Leigh Gilmore

Year:	1994
Authors:	Leigh Gilmore
Publishers:	Cornell University Press
Pages:	284
Print type:	BOOK

Description:

In the first comprehensive feminist critique of autobiography as a genre, Leigh Gilmore incorporates writings that have not up to now been considered part of the autobiographical tradition. Offering subtle and perceptive readings of a wide variety of texts-- from the confessions of medieval mystics to contemporary works by Chicana and lesbian writers-- she identifies an innovative practice of "autobiographics" which covers the entire spectrum of women's self-representation.