A01=Anne E. Goldman
african american literature
american women
Author_Anne E. Goldman
autobiographical writing
autobiography
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Category=DSB
Category=JBSF11
Category=JBSL
colonialism
cookbooks
culinary autobiography
cultural studies
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eq_biography-true-stories
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eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
ethnic american working women
ethnic literature
ethnic women writers
garment industry
healing
history
jewish american literature
labor narratives
labor organizers
literary genre
memoirs
midwifery
new mexico
non traditional writing
nuevo mexicanas
personal narratives
self portraits
working class women
working class writers
working women
Product details
- ISBN 9780520200975
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 1996
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In an innovative critique of traditional approaches to autobiography, Anne E. Goldman convincingly demonstrates that ethnic women can and do speak for themselves, even in the most unlikely contexts. Citing a wide variety of nontraditional texts--including the cookbooks of Nuevo Mexicanas, African American memoirs of midwifery and healing, and Jewish women's histories of the garment industry--Goldman illustrates how American women have asserted their ethnic identities and made their voices heard over and sometimes against the interests of publishers, editors, and readers. While the dominant culture has interpreted works of ethnic literature as representative of a people rather than an individual, the working women of this study insist upon their own agency in narrating rich and complicated self-portraits.
Anne E. Goldman is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
