Women's Life Writing and Imagined Communities

Cynthia Huff is a Professor of English at Illinois State University. She is the co-editor of Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women's Diaries (1996).

• Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Towards a Geography of Women’s Life Writing and Imagined Communities: An Introductory Essay /CYNTHIA HUFF -- RESISTING THE BORDERS -- Imagined Ancestral Communities of Displaced Australian Daughters: Evelyn Crawford’s Over My Tracks and Lily Brett’s After the War and Unintended Consequences /GAY BREYLEY -- The Community of Camp Sisters: Bonds of Support, Bonds of Subversion /DEBORAH LEE AMES -- Imagining an Hospitable Community in the Deportation Narratives of Baltic Women /LEENA KURVET-KAOSAAR -- Imagining “Sweet Fellowship”: Resisting Prejudice with Spiritual Transcendence in Jarena Lee’s Imagined Community /JERYL J. PRESCOTT -- CROSSING THE BORDERS -- Reverse Migrations and Imagined Communities -- MANUELA COSTANTINO AND SUSANNA EGAN -- “Somewhere between Puerto Rico and New York”: The Representation of Individual and Collective Identities in Esmeralda Santiago’s When I Was Puerto Rican and Almost a Woman /MARTA VIZCAYA ECHANO -- Dear (Embodied) Reader: Life Writing and Disability /SUSANNAH B. MINTZ -- ENVISIONING NEW BORDERS -- “Prei for me mi leue suster”: The Paradox of the Anchoritic “Community” in Late Medieval England /MICHELLE M. SAUER -- Collaborative Life Writing as Ideology: The Auto /biographies of Mary Howitt and Her Family /LINDA H. PETERSON -- “We are the Web”: Letter Writing and the 1980s Women’s Peace Movement /MARGARETTA JOLLY -- Consuming Lives, Creating Community: Female Chinese-American Diary Writing on the Web /LENA KARLSSON -- Another Form of Crying: Girl Zines as Life Writing /JENNIFER SINOR -- DRAWING THE BORDERS Voices /LYNN Z. BLOOM -- This Bridge Called My Book: Anthologies of Women’s Life Writing and the Problem of Community /JILLIAN SANDELL -- Imagining Sisterhood, Again /JEANNE PERREAULT -- Index.