Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 12:12:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: sheppard-AT-isc.upenn.edu (Leah Sheppard)
Subject: SUMMARY:  testimony/confessional writing


Thanks for so many responses-- I'll post a summary at the end of this.  
This looks to be a fascinating topic! 

Someone asked for a course description.  This is as close as I can get
at the moment:

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FRENCH 325-- Women and Colonialism
Women Writers and the Caribbean, 1688-1990
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"Within its narrow geographic space the Caribbean powerfully ramifies the 
effects of superordinate and subordinate nations and peoples, of power and 
control, of domination and patriarchy.  Furthermore, the consequent scattering 
of African peoples throughout the Caribbean and their claiming of its space 
for their own did not prevent a second uprooting of peoples from their New
World home to the developed countries, old and new. Many of women creative 
writers of the Caribbean have now joined this international band, but through 
their work they are reclaiming their homeland and their identity."

         --Helen Pyne-Timothy, _The Woman, the Writer, and Caribbean Society_
(which will be out fall 1996, by the way-- this quote is from a CAAS
promotional web page http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/caas/pubs/fwoman.html)

Here's the list of sources I'm interested in (Sidonie Smith looks like a 
gold mine).  I could probably spend the next two years reading all this :)
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_By, For & About: Feminist Cultural Politics_.  Women's Press  (Toronto) 1994.

Ellis, C. & M.G. Flaherty, (ed.s), (1992), _Investigating  Subjectivity:
Research on Lived Experience_, Newbury Park : Sage Publications, c1992.

Felman, Shoshana & Laub, Dori.  _Testimony : crises of witnessing in
literature, psychoanalysis, and history.  New York : Routledge, 1992.

Gilmore, Leigh.  Autobiographics : a feminist theory of women's
self-representation.
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994.  (Series: Reading Women Writing)

Kamuf, Peggy.  Signature pieces : on the institution of authorship.  
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1988.

Miller, Nancy K.  Getting personal : feminist occasions and other 
autobiographical acts.  New York : Routledge, 1991.

Personal Narratives Group.  _Interpreting Women's Lives_. 
Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1989.

Studies in autobiography. ed James Olney.  
New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

Autobiography, essays theoretical and critical. ed James Olney.  
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1980.
 
De/colonizing the subject : the politics of gender in women's autobiography.
Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, editors.  
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1992.

Smith, Sidonie.  Subjectivity, identity, and the body : women's 
autobiographical practices in the twentieth century.  
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1993.
 
Smith, Sidonie.  A poetics of women's autobiography : marginality 
and the fictions of self-representation.  
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1987.

Smith, Sidonie.  Where I'm bound; patterns of slavery and freedom 
in Black American autobiography.  Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1974.
(Series: Contributions in American studies, no. 16)

The Female Autograph. guest editor, Domna C. Stanton. 
Jeanine Parisier Plottel, general editor.  
New York : New York Literary Forum, 1984.  
(New York literary forum ; v. 12-13).