Helen M. Buss is a professor of English at the University of Calgary. Her book on Canadian women's life writing, Mapping Our Selves, won the Gabrielle Roy Prize. As Margaret Clarke, she has published novels, short stories and poetry. Three of her most recent books published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press are Memoirs from Away: A New Found Land Girlhood, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives, edited with D.L. Macdonald and Anne McWhir, and Working in Women's Archives edited with Marlene Kadar.

''[This book] demonstrates perhaps the most fulsome review of the literature of memoir and autobiography that I have seen, but the writer also contributes very important theoretical and practical distinctions between autobiography and memoir. Indeed, those distinctions and the history she outlines of both genres are among the most important contributions [this book] makes to the study of women's self writing.'' -- Shari Benstock, University of Miami

• Repossessing the World: Reading Memoirs by Contemporary Women by Helen M. BussAcknowledgements An Autobiocritical Preface: Writing As a Memoirist Chapter 1: Introduction: Memoir As a Life-Writing Discourse Chapter 2: Memoir with an Attitude: One Reader Reads The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts Chapter 3: Identity As a Balancing Act: Memoirs' Practice of Non-Sacrficial Ritual of Self-Performance Chapter 4: Dancing with Our Mothers: Reading and Writing Memoirs As a Mother and a Daughter Chapter 5: ""Scenes of Language"": Trauma and the Search for Form in Women#8217;s Memoirs Chapter 6: Joining Heart and Head: Contemporary Academic Women's Uses of the Memoir Form Conclusion: Repossessing a Relational Autonomy That Resists Appropriation Works Cited Index

Helen M. Buss is a professor of English at the University of Calgary. Her book on Canadian women's life writing, Mapping Our Selves, won the Gabrielle Roy Prize. As Margaret Clarke, she has published novels, short stories and poetry. Three of her most recent books published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press are Memoirs from Away: A New Found Land Girlhood, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives, edited with D.L. Macdonald and Anne McWhir, and Working in Women's Archives edited with Marlene Kadar.

''[This book] demonstrates perhaps the most fulsome review of the literature of memoir and autobiography that I have seen, but the writer also contributes very important theoretical and practical distinctions between autobiography and memoir. Indeed, those distinctions and the history she outlines of both genres are among the most important contributions [this book] makes to the study of women's self writing.'' -- Shari Benstock, University of Miami

• Repossessing the World: Reading Memoirs by Contemporary Women by Helen M. BussAcknowledgements An Autobiocritical Preface: Writing As a Memoirist Chapter 1: Introduction: Memoir As a Life-Writing Discourse Chapter 2: Memoir with an Attitude: One Reader Reads The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts Chapter 3: Identity As a Balancing Act: Memoirs' Practice of Non-Sacrficial Ritual of Self-Performance Chapter 4: Dancing with Our Mothers: Reading and Writing Memoirs As a Mother and a Daughter Chapter 5: ""Scenes of Language"": Trauma and the Search for Form in Women#8217;s Memoirs Chapter 6: Joining Heart and Head: Contemporary Academic Women's Uses of the Memoir Form Conclusion: Repossessing a Relational Autonomy That Resists Appropriation Works Cited Index

Helen M. Buss is a professor of English at the University of Calgary. Her book on Canadian women's life writing, Mapping Our Selves, won the Gabrielle Roy Prize. As Margaret Clarke, she has published novels, short stories and poetry. Three of her most recent books published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press are Memoirs from Away: A New Found Land Girlhood, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives, edited with D.L. Macdonald and Anne McWhir, and Working in Women's Archives edited with Marlene Kadar.

''[This book] demonstrates perhaps the most fulsome review of the literature of memoir and autobiography that I have seen, but the writer also contributes very important theoretical and practical distinctions between autobiography and memoir. Indeed, those distinctions and the history she outlines of both genres are among the most important contributions [this book] makes to the study of women's self writing.'' -- Shari Benstock, University of Miami

• Repossessing the World: Reading Memoirs by Contemporary Women by Helen M. BussAcknowledgements An Autobiocritical Preface: Writing As a Memoirist Chapter 1: Introduction: Memoir As a Life-Writing Discourse Chapter 2: Memoir with an Attitude: One Reader Reads The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts Chapter 3: Identity As a Balancing Act: Memoirs' Practice of Non-Sacrficial Ritual of Self-Performance Chapter 4: Dancing with Our Mothers: Reading and Writing Memoirs As a Mother and a Daughter Chapter 5: ""Scenes of Language"": Trauma and the Search for Form in Women#8217;s Memoirs Chapter 6: Joining Heart and Head: Contemporary Academic Women's Uses of the Memoir Form Conclusion: Repossessing a Relational Autonomy That Resists Appropriation Works Cited Index