“A LIVING MOSAIC OF HUMAN BEINGS”: THE LIFE WRITING OF VIRGINIA WOOLF AND ZITKALA-ŠA

AUTOR(ES)

Czarnecki, Kristin

FONTE

Ilha Desterro

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2021-08

RESUMO

Abstract This essay examines life writing by English author Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and Yankton Dakota writer Zitkala-Ša (1876-1938), specifically Woolf’s memoir, “A Sketch of the Past,” written in 1939-40 and first published in Moments of Being in 1976, and Zitkala-Ša’s autobiographical essays, published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1900. This comparative study explores how both women establish selfhood amid competing pressures vying for their minds and bodies; how mothers and maternal loss shape their autobiographies; how physical and psychological place and displacement influence their life writing; and how matters of audience affect their literary self-portraits. Reading Woolf and Zitkala-Ša together yields fresh insights into the intersections of race, class, gender, and feminism in women’s writing.

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