Valérie Baisnée, “Through the long corridor of distance”: Space and Self in Contemporary New Zealand Women’s Autobiographies
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29 juin 2021
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Patricia Neville, « Valérie Baisnée, “Through the long corridor of distance”: Space and Self in Contemporary New Zealand Women’s Autobiographies », Commonwealth Essays and Studies, ID : 10.4000/ces.5629
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“Writing about one’s past involves both invention and exorcisms: finding what was lost and would have been permanently lost otherwise; and freeing oneself of the burden of it, when it is a burden.” Charles Brasch, Journals, 1968. In her introduction to her study of autobiographies of New Zealand women, Valérie Baisnée reminds us that Charles Brasch, founder and editor of Landfall, New Zealand’s pre-eminent literary quarterly, encouraged autobiographical writing with his “Beginnings” series in...