Mapping the private geography : autobiography, identity, and America

Author(s)

• Reaves, Gerri

Bibliographic Information

Mapping the private geography : autobiography, identity, and America

Gerri Reaves

McFarland, 2000

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-158) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This study of autobiographical writing and its reflection of personal and national identity focuses on four writers and the ways in which their work maps the internal and external self - Gertrude Stein, Lillian Hellman, Sam Shepard and Joan Didion.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA53735585
• ISBN:
  • 0786408774
• LCCN: 00049013
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Jefferson, N.C.
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 162 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS366.A88
  • DC21 : 818/.50809
  • DC21 : B
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : National characteristics, American, in literature
  • LCSH : Identity in literature
  • LCSH : Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
  • LCSH : Hellman, Lillian, 1906-
  • LCSH : Shepard, Sam, 1943-
  • LCSH : Didion, Joan
  • LCSH : Autobiography