Autobiographical Inscriptions: Form, Personhood, and the American Woman Writer of Color
- ISBN-10
- 0195123417
- ISBN-13
- 9780195123418
- Category
- African American women authors
- Pages
- 228
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press on Demand
- Author
- Barbara Ruth Rodriguez
Description
This text is a discussion of the ways that innovations of form and structure contain and bolster arguments for personhood. Organized thematically, with chapters focusing on central questions of form, this work pairs canonized texts with less well-known works.
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