Pauline Polkey

Representing Lives: Women and Auto / biography Pauline Polkey 2000 edition

Marc Notes: Bibl. ref. & index; Papers presented at the conference Representing lives: women and auto/biography on July 23-25 1997 at Nottingham Trent University--T.p. verso. Biographical Note: Alison Donnell is Lecturer in Women's Writing and Feminist Theory and Pauline Polkey is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature, both at Nottingham Trent University. Table of Contents: Is There Life in the Contact Zone?--Liz Stanley * Part I: Placing the Subject * First Person Suspect, or, The Enemy Within--Julia Swindells * Korean American National Identity in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's "Dictee" --Helena Grice * Mary Kingsley--Lynnette Turner * Part II: Revising Genres * Traps Slyly Laid--R. J. Ellis * Lorine Niedecker--Lorna Jowett * Travel Writing in Autobiography--Vesna Goldsworthy * "My Poor Private Voice"--Anna Snaith * Distinguishing Autobiography From the Novel--Tonya Blowers * Part III: Staging the Self * Staging Our Selves--Elaine Aston * Performance and Pedagogy--Nike Imoru * Viglen's Revenge--Alson Oddey * Part IV: (Auto) Biographical Representations * Tupperware Ladies--Vanessa Gill-Brown * The Discourse of Selfhood--Ersebet Barat * From Shaping Imperialism to Sharing Imprisonment--Deborah Gaitskell * Constructing the Subject?--Christiane Schonfeld * Part V: Recovering Lives--Revising History * "My Mind on Paper"--Anira Rowanchild * Promoting the Self--Helen Nicholson * Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928)--June Purvis * "The Narrow Margin of Long Days of Toil--T. G. Ashplant * Part VI: Matrilineality * One, Two, Three: Sylvia Plath's Verse Dramas--Nicola Shaughnessy * Double Vision--Alsin Fell * The Autobiographical Voice in Lily Braun's Fiction--Nicola Brice * Auto/Biography / Auto/Mythology--Alex Goody

Contributor Bio:  Polkey, Pauline Polkey lectures in women's writing and feminist theory at Nottingham Trent University. Contributor Bio:  Donnell, Alison Alison Donnell is Lecturer in Women's Writing and Feminist Theory and Pauline Polkey is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature, both at Nottingham Trent University.