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Examined in this study are twentieth- and twenty-first century autobiographies and memoirs by major New Zealand women writers. Brought together for the first time in a single study, texts by Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Janet Frame, Lauris Edmond, Fiona Kidman, Barbara Anderson, Ruth Park, and Ruth Dallas are analysed with the aid of spatial concepts that probe unexplored aspects of their life-narratives.
Drawing on recent and revised concepts of place and space in cultural geography, philosophy, and sociology, the book acknowledges the link between identities and locations in a non-essentialist way by pinpointing the various forms of inhabiting and being in space. It refutes the idea of autobiographies as pure self-referential texts, and shows how these works deploy their own horizon of reference.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Thresholds
2. Homes
3. Displaced Bodies, Disembodied Texts
4. Landscapes
5. Itineraries
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index



