附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-199) and index.
Autobiocritical preface -- Memoir as a life-writing discourse -- Memoir with an attitude : one reader reads The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts -- Identity as a balancing act : memoirs' practice of non-sacrificial rituals of self-performance -- Dancing with our mothers : reading and writing memoirs as a mother and a daughter -- "Scenes of language" : trauma and the search for form in women's memoirs -- Joining heart and head : contemporary academic women's use of the memoir form -- Repossessing a relational autonomy that resists appropriation.
