Helen M Buss
Biographic Data
| ID | 5407611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen M Buss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen M |
| FAMILY NAME | Buss |
| SIGNATURE | BUSS H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Kim Thúy’s Ru and the Art of the Anecdote
No matter what we do to autobiography, it continues to flourish in one form or another... . the varieties of representation of the autobiographical are multiplying, and...need to be examined as serious
Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market by Julie Rak (review)
Reviewed by: Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market by Julie Rak Helen M. Buss (bio) Julie Rak. Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2013. 249pp. ISBN 978-1554589398, $29.99. In 1977 Marcus Billson called “memoir” the “forgotten genre,” and during the later years of the twentieth century, there was little critical or theoretical remembering of the genre, especially in terms of its difference …
Gender, Genre and Identity in Women's Travel Writing (review)
Genreing
Using the device of capitalization of the first mention of various generic namings, as in dictionary and encyclopedia entries, the writer takes a journey through LIFE WRITING and her own experience as a critic and writer of autobiographical forms
Working in Women’s Archives
What comes to mind when we hear that a friend or colleague is studying unpublished documents in a celebrated author's archive? We might assume that they are reading factual documents or, at the very least, straightforward accounts of the truth about someone or some event. But are they? Working in Women's Archives is a collection of essays that poses this question and offers a variety of answers. Any assumption readers may have about the archive a…
Memoir with an Attitude
(1997). Memoir with an Attitude: One Reader Reads The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 12, Cross-Cultural Autobiography, pp. 203-224
Bios in Women's Autobiography
(1995). Bios in Women's Autobiography. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 10, Terms of Identity: Essays on the Theoretical Terminology of Lifewriting, pp. 114-125
The Autobiographies of Han Suyin
Finding a literary placement for a writer such as Han Suyin—a novelist/autobiographer/historian, of Chinese and Belgian parentage, Chinese upbringing, European and British education, who holds a Hong Kong passport and resides in Switzerland with her Indian husband—is the kind of challenge which will in the future more frequently present itself to the literary critic concerned with the phenomenon of postcolonial literature in English. While writer…
Reading for the Doubled Discourse of American Women's Autobiography
(1991). Reading for the Doubled Discourse of American Women's Autobiography. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 6, Illness, Disability, and Lifewriting, pp. 95-108
The Different Voice of Canadian Feminist Autobiographers
The theory that women exhibit a different ethical development than men, one in which "identity and intimacy are . . . conjoined" (Gilligan 13), is used to interrogate the autobiographies of three Canadian feminists, women who would seem to have pursued a development that emphasized individual achievement rather than relationship. Such women not only seek to "balance" the two identity formation processes, but also exhibit the stylistic markers of …
Margaret Laurence—a Bibliographical Essay
Reading for the Doubled Discourse of American Women's Autobiography
(1991). Reading for the Doubled Discourse of American Women's Autobiography. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 6, Illness, Disability, and Lifewriting, pp. 95-108
The Autobiographies of Han Suyin
Finding a literary placement for a writer such as Han Suyin—a novelist/autobiographer/historian, of Chinese and Belgian parentage, Chinese upbringing, European and British education, who holds a Hong Kong passport and resides in Switzerland with her Indian husband—is the kind of challenge which will in the future more frequently present itself to the literary critic concerned with the phenomenon of postcolonial literature in English. While writer…
Bios in Women's Autobiography
(1995). Bios in Women's Autobiography. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 10, Terms of Identity: Essays on the Theoretical Terminology of Lifewriting, pp. 114-125
Margaret Laurence—a Bibliographical Essay
The Different Voice of Canadian Feminist Autobiographers
The theory that women exhibit a different ethical development than men, one in which "identity and intimacy are . . . conjoined" (Gilligan 13), is used to interrogate the autobiographies of three Canadian feminists, women who would seem to have pursued a development that emphasized individual achievement rather than relationship. Such women not only seek to "balance" the two identity formation processes, but also exhibit the stylistic markers of …
Reading for the Doubled Discourse of American Women's Autobiography
(1991). Reading for the Doubled Discourse of American Women's Autobiography. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 6, Illness, Disability, and Lifewriting, pp. 95-108
The Autobiographies of Han Suyin
Finding a literary placement for a writer such as Han Suyin—a novelist/autobiographer/historian, of Chinese and Belgian parentage, Chinese upbringing, European and British education, who holds a Hong Kong passport and resides in Switzerland with her Indian husband—is the kind of challenge which will in the future more frequently present itself to the literary critic concerned with the phenomenon of postcolonial literature in English. While writer…
Bios in Women's Autobiography
(1995). Bios in Women's Autobiography. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 10, Terms of Identity: Essays on the Theoretical Terminology of Lifewriting, pp. 114-125
Memoir with an Attitude
(1997). Memoir with an Attitude: One Reader Reads The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 12, Cross-Cultural Autobiography, pp. 203-224
Working in Women’s Archives
What comes to mind when we hear that a friend or colleague is studying unpublished documents in a celebrated author's archive? We might assume that they are reading factual documents or, at the very least, straightforward accounts of the truth about someone or some event. But are they? Working in Women's Archives is a collection of essays that poses this question and offers a variety of answers. Any assumption readers may have about the archive a…
Gender, Genre and Identity in Women's Travel Writing (review)
Genreing
Using the device of capitalization of the first mention of various generic namings, as in dictionary and encyclopedia entries, the writer takes a journey through LIFE WRITING and her own experience as a critic and writer of autobiographical forms
Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market by Julie Rak (review)
Reviewed by: Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market by Julie Rak Helen M. Buss (bio) Julie Rak. Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2013. 249pp. ISBN 978-1554589398, $29.99. In 1977 Marcus Billson called “memoir” the “forgotten genre,” and during the later years of the twentieth century, there was little critical or theoretical remembering of the genre, especially in terms of its difference …
Kim Thúy’s Ru and the Art of the Anecdote
No matter what we do to autobiography, it continues to flourish in one form or another... . the varieties of representation of the autobiographical are multiplying, and...need to be examined as serious
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