10% off all books and free delivery over £50
Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks.

The Text Is Myself

View All Editions (1)

The selected edition of this book is not available to buy right now.
Add To Wishlist
Write A Review

About

The Text Is Myself Synopsis

Queen Lili'uokalani, the last monarch of Hawai'i, was forced to abdicate and her homeland was annexed. American poet H.D. wrote through the London blitz. Italian novelist and art critic Anna Banti lost the manuscript of her novel about Artemisia Gentileschi but survived the war's devastation to rewrite it.

German-Jewish novelist Grete Weil fled to Holland, but her husband was arrested there and murdered by the Nazis. Chilean novelist Isabel Allende fled her country after her uncle Salvador Allende was assassinated and her daughter was lost to disease. Miriam Fuchs analyzes the impact of catastrophe on the lives and writings of these five women.

Using a feminist and comparative approach, she links them in insightful ways, despite the differences in their cultural and geographic backgrounds.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780299190644
Publication date:
Author: Miriam Fuchs
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press an imprint of University of Wisconsin Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 258 pages
Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
Genres: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Gender studies: women and girls
Biography: general

Frequently asked questions