“A Living Mosaic of Human Beings”: The Life Writing of Virginia Woolf and Zitkala-Ša
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...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-a99ff5726eeb41cdac5efe8630b65e542022-12-22T04:07:48ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaIlha do Desterro0101-48462175-80262021-06-0174210.5007/2175-8026.2021.e78361“A Living Mosaic of Human Beings”: The Life Writing of Virginia Woolf and Zitkala-ŠaKristin Czarnecki0Georgetown CollegeThis 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.https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/78361WoolfZitkala-Šalife writingfeminismintersectionality |
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| title | “A Living Mosaic of Human Beings”: The Life Writing of Virginia Woolf and Zitkala-Ša |
| title_full | “A Living Mosaic of Human Beings”: The Life Writing of Virginia Woolf and Zitkala-Ša |
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| title_short | “A Living Mosaic of Human Beings”: The Life Writing of Virginia Woolf and Zitkala-Ša |
| title_sort | a living mosaic of human beings the life writing of virginia woolf and zitkala sa |
| topic | Woolf Zitkala-Ša life writing feminism intersectionality |
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