“A Living Mosaic of Human Beings”
The Life Writing of Virginia Woolf and Zitkala-Ša
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21429541 |
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| Authors | Kristin Czarnecki (0000-0003-0864-4401, Georgetown College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-07 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0101-4846 • E-ISSN: 2175-8026 |
| Publisher | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5007/2175-8026.2021.e78361 |
| OpenAlex | W3170548539 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
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
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Biography · Feminism · Life writing · Linguistics · Literature · Memoir · Portrait · Race (biology) · Reading (process) · Sketch · Sociology · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Data Analysis and Archiving · Gender Studies · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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