The Life Writing of Otherness: Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston, and Winterson

by Lauren Rusk

Overview

Focusing on innovative works by Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston and Winterson, the author analyzes how they each represent the self as unique, collectively "other," and inclusively human, and how these conflicting aspects of selfhood interact.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136537431
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/06/2012
Series:	Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	380 KB

About the Author

Lauren Rusk teaches at Stanford University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 CHAPTER ONE Reading the Life Writing of Otherness; Chapter 2 CHAPTER TWO The Common Life of Uncommon Women; Chapter 3 CHAPTER THREE The Personal Passion of Collective Selfhood; Chapter 4 CHAPTER FOUR The Hard-Won Harmonics of Selfhood; Chapter 5 CHAPTER FIVE The Refusal of Otherness; Notes; Works Cited Index;

Editorial Reviews

"Rusk chooses these ‘hybrid texts’ because of their challenge to readers ‘to work through puzzles in ways that mirror the writers’ own struggles to wrest sense from the contradictions they’ve faced. Thus the books strive to transform how their readers perceive one another and, ultimately, how they act’ (1). . . ." — Jeanette McVicker, Biography

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