Women's Life Writing and Imagined Communities

This collection of fifteen essays with a critical introduction explores how women's life-writing reflects and shapes a community's values - whether that community is global, national, or local.

The authors examine women's autobiographical texts from a variety of perspectives, including feminism, cultural studies, post-modernism, and New Historicism.

The material analyzed includes novels, memoirs, autobiographies, web pages, online zines, letters, religious records, anthologies, and deportation narratives.

This volume was previously published as a special issue of the journal Prose Studies.

Deborah Lee Ames, Palm Beach Atlantic University, USA Lynn Z.

Bloom, University of Connecticut, USA Gay Breyley, University of Wollongong, Australia Marta Yuzcaya Echano,