Repossessing the World

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Repossessing the World is written by Helen M. Buss and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 088920408X (ISBN 10) and 9780889204089 (ISBN 13).

Annotation A critical inquiry into women's use of the memoir, a form that has often been dismissed as less significant than autobiography, less professional than the novel, and less intellectual than the essay. Buss (aka Margaret Clarke; English, U. of Calgary) argues that the memoir "bridges the typical strategies of historical and literary discourses in order to establish necessary connections between the private and the public, the personal and political ... The memoir is increasingly used (by women) to interrogate the private individual's relationship to a history and/or a culture from which she finds her experience of her self and her life excluded." Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).