A Poetics of Women's Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-Representation

by Sidonie Smith

A Poetics of Women's Autobiography sees the woman who writes autobiographies as a persistent and resilient interrogator of the prevailing ideology of gender and the androcentric fictions it sustains, including the very idea of "autobiography."

Genres: Academic

Hardcover

About the author

Sidonie Smith is the Martha Guernsey Colby Collegiate Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan.