The Intimate critique : autobiographical literary criticism

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The Intimate critique : autobiographical literary criticism

edited by Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey & Frances Murphy Zauhar

Duke University Press, 1993

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Includes bibliographical reference (p. [303]-308)

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内容説明

For a long time now, readers and scholars have strained against the limits of traditional literary criticism, whose precepts-above all, "objectivity"-seem to have so little to do with the highly personal and deeply felt experience of literature. The Intimate Critique marks a movement away from this tradition. With their rich spectrum of personal and passionate voices, these essays challenge and ultimately breach the boundaries between criticism and narrative, experience and expression, literature and life. Grounded in feminism and connected to the race, class, and gender paradigms in cultural studies, the twenty-six contributors to this volume-including Jane Tompkins, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Shirley Nelson Garner, and Shirley Goek-Lin Lim-respond in new, refreshing ways to literary subjects ranging from Homer to Freud, Middlemarch to The Woman Warrior, Shiva Naipaul to Frederick Douglass. Revealing the beliefs and formative life experiences that inform their essays, these writers characteristically recount the process by which their opinions took shape--a process as conducive to self-discovery as it is to critical insight. The result-which has been referred to as "personal writing," "experimental critical writing," or "intellectual autobiography"-maps a dramatic change in the direction of literary criticism.Contributors. Julia Balen, Dana Beckelman, Ellen Brown, Sandra M. Brown, Rosanne Kanhai-Brunton, Suzanne Bunkers, Peter Carlton, Brenda Daly, Victoria Ekanger, Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey, Shirley Nelson Garner, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Melody Graulich, Gail Griffin, Dolan Hubbard, Kendall, Susan Koppelman, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Linda Robertson, Carol Taylor, Jane Tompkins, Cheryl Torsney, Trace Yamamoto, Frances Murphy Zauhar

目次

Acknowledgments vii Introduction / Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey, and Francis Murphy Zauhar 1 Part 1. Muse-ings on Genre, Autobiography, Narrative: Formative Strategies Border Crossing as Method and Motif in Contemporary American Writing, or, How Freud Helped Me Case the Joint / Diane P. Freedman 13 Me and My Shadow / Jane Tompkins 23 Beyond Literary Darwinism: Women's Voices and Critical Discourse / Olivia Frey 41 "Everyday Life": My Sojourn at Parchman Farm / Cheryl B. Torsney 67 Excerpts from Letters to Friends / Susan Koppelman 75 Social Circles: Being a Report on J. Hills Miller's Campus Visitation / Linda R. Robertson 81 Touchstones and Bedrocks: Learning the Stories We Need / Victoria Ekanger 93 Part II. Critical Confessions Creative Voices: Women Reading and Women's Writing / Frances Murphy Zauhar 103 Breaking Silence: The Woman Warrior / Shirley Nelson Garner 117 Different Silences / Traise Yamamoto 127 "What's in a Name?": Some Meanings of Blackness / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 135 Poetry and the Age: "A Girl in a Library" to Randall Jarrell / Sandra M. Brown 151 My Friend, Joyce Carol Oates / Brenda Daly 163 Somebody Must Say These Things: An Essay for My Mother / Melody Graulich 175 The Scarlet Brewer and the Voice of the Colonized / Shirley Geok-lin Lim 191 Dividing Fences / Carol S. Taylor 197 What Do Women Really Mean? Thoughts on Women's Diaries and Lives / Suzanne Bunkers 207 Part III. Autobiographical Literary Criticism Between the Medusa and the Abyss: Reading Jane Eyre, Reading Myself / Ellen Brown 225 Rereading Middlemarch, Rereading Myself / Peter Carlton 237 The Crippling of the Third World: Shiva Naipaul's Heritage / Rosanne Kanhai-Brunton 225 Penelope's Web / Gail Griffin 255 "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around!": Reading the Narrative of Frederick Douglass / Dolan Hubbard 265 Catharine Trotter Cockburn and Me: A Duography / Kendall 273 In Between Abject and Object: The Mourning Sickness of the Expectant Mother, or, Three Movements of the Blues in B Minor / Dana Beckelman 283 La Ronde of Children and Mothers / Julia Balen 293 Selected Bibliography 303 Contributors 309

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