Съдържание:
  • Region, genre, gender
  • A feminist life narrative in a traditionalist society : Belle Kearney
  • A distanced Southern girlhood : Helen Keller and Anne Walter Fearn
  • Wifehood narratives : Mary Hamilton and Agnes Grinstead Anderson
  • Belles, wives, and public lives, part I : Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair
  • Belles, wives, and public lives, part II : Virginia Foster Durr, Lindy Claiborne Boggs, and Lylah Scarborough Barber
  • Testimonial narratives of racial consciousness : Katharine DuPre Lumpkin and Lillian Smith
  • Narratives of a writing life, part I : Ellen Glasgow and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  • Narratives of a writing life, part II : Zora Neale Hurston and Bernice Kelly Harris
  • Modes of autobiographical narrative : Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Spencer, and Ellen Douglas
  • Coda: Reflections on a literary genre.