The Autobiography: Female Genre?

 by María-Milagros Rivera Garretas

Reader, 5-6 (1999-2000)

http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Lectora/article/viewFile/205403/281148

Magnificent article that explains, with fine precision and in a synthetic manner, why autobiography is a genre “more for women than for men... in terms of sense, of meaning”.  Being that “when writing an autobiography, by reading autobiographical works, one vibrates… empathy is produced”, and vibration and empathy are located beyond, not against the ordinary, rational knowledge, which has been defined as “a world without women”.

Ángeles Suárez

Demac Researcher

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