The Text Is Myself: Women's Life Writing and Catastrophe

by Miriam Fuchs

Queen Lili'uokalani, the last monarch of Hawai'i, was forced to abdicate and faced the annexation of her homeland. American poet H.D. wrote through the London blitz and during the years of less regular bombing. Italian novelist and art critic Anna Banti lost the manuscript of her novel about Artemisia Gentileschi but survived the war devastation to Florence to rewrite it. German-Jewish novelist Grete Weil fled to Holland, but her husband was arrested...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299190641
• ISBN13: 9780299190644
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"