ABSTRACT

Focusing on innovative works by Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston and Winterson, the author analyzes how they each represent the self as unique, collectively "other," and inclusively human, and how these conflicting aspects of selfhood interact.

chapter Chapter One|13 pages

Reading the Life Writing of Otherness

A Critical Synthesis

chapter Chapter Two|16 pages

The Common Life of Uncommon Women

Woolf's A Room of One's Own

chapter Chapter Three|24 pages

The Personal Passion of Collective Selfhood

Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son

chapter Chapter Four|50 pages

The Hard-Won Harmonics of Selfhood

Kingston's The Woman Warrior

chapter Chapter Five|28 pages

The Refusal of Otherness

Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit