Description:
Analyzes the literary, cultural, and ethical effects of six woman writers - Nadezhda Mandel'shtam, Romola Nijinsky, Simone de Beauvoir, Lou Andreas-Salome, Asja Lacis, and Maitreyi Devi - whose lives were twined with the cultural vibrations of their time.
Brief description: Susan Ingram is currently a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria.
Review Quotes:
'Susan Ingram's manuscript on modernist women's autobiographical writings offers a bold new approach to important problems of identity and relationality in modernist and postmodernist theory, as well as a fresh look at the problems feminist critics face when examining texts in which women found their identities in part on their relationships with men. She also offers a critical introduction to the works of several women autobiographers who are virtually unknown (particularly A. Lacis and R. Nijinsky) or neglected by scholars of autobiography. Insightful and deeply thoughtful, her contribution to philosophy and literary theory in this work will surely have an important impact on studies of modernism and postmodernism, as well as on the ethics of autobiographical writing.'--Lisa McNee, Department of French, Queen's University