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Mapping the Private Geography: Autobiography,Identity,and America  
Author: Gerri Reaves
ISBN: 0786408774
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
How we write about ourselves is often a reflection of how we perceive both our own identities and our culture. 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. Using the neglected autobiographical texts of Gertrude Stein, Lillian Hellman, Sam Shepard, and Joan Didion, this text analyzes the different ways in which these authors balance individual American identity with collective identities and reinvent their familial, cultural, or national engenderings. Each of these authors creates a private geography-a psychological map, a myth, an ideology, or a fiction-while at the same time exploring who can claim ownership to memory, history, and the self. This volume will prove valuable to those studying the work of any of the featured authors, as well as those seeking insight into the way an autobiography maps the self and the world.

About the Author
Gerri Reaves, lives in Fort Myers, Florida.




Mapping the Private Geography: Autobiography,Identity,and America

FROM THE PUBLISHER

How we write about ourselves is often a reflection of how we perceive both our own identities and our culture. 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. Using the neglected autobiographical texts of Gertrude Stein, Lillian Hellman, Sam Shepard, and Joan Didion, this text analyzes the different ways in which these authors balance individual American identity with collective identities and reinvent their familial, cultural, or national engenderings. Each of these authors creates a private geography—a psychological map, a myth, an ideology, or a fiction—while at the same time exploring who can claim ownership to memory, history, and the self. This volume will prove valuable to those studying the work of any of the featured authors, as well as those seeking insight into the way an autobiography maps the self and the world.

Author Biography: Gerri Reaves, lives in Fort Myers, Florida.

FROM THE CRITICS

Booknews

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. Reaves (English, Texas Wesleyan U.) analyzes the autobiographical texts of Gertrude Stein, Lillian Hellman, Sam Shepard, and Joan Didion to trace the ways these authors balance individual American identity with collective identities and reinvent their familial, cultural, and national engenderings. Each of the texts is examined in relation to genre, identity, and place. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

     



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