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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Performing Selves: Contemporary Women's Autobioexpression Abstract: "Performing Selves" develops a new interdisciplinary methodology for the study of women's lives as they are expressed through different creative media. I establish the term autobioexpression to designate a broad repertoire of genres of women's creative self-life-expression. Autobiography and life history are two of these genres, but this repertoire also includes poetry, art, fiction, and other categories of creative production used for self-representation. Drawing on women's autobiography studies, folkloristics and performance studies, this study of autobioexpression formalizes guidelines for identifying and studying blurred and blended genres. Such a method recognizes that each creator has a choice of autobioexpressive forms, including varieties of combinations of forms, which allow her the space to variously inhabit and interrogate the different subject positions to which she lays claim, or which lay claim to her. |
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