Abstract: After the English and the Black women autobiographies, Maya Dutt brings in the Canadian indigenous women’s autobiography as the focus of her “Woman and Autobiography: Maria Campbell’s Halfbreed in Retrospect”. Dutt highlights the resistance offered by Campbell through her…
Abstract: “From Philomela to the Nightingale: The Autobiographical Song of Maya Angelou” by Hema Nair R. gives an in-depth analysis of the five-volume autobiography of Maya Angelou, and captures effectively the significance and exquisiteness of language as used in the…
Abstract: In “The Quest for the Woman’s Self: Virginia Woolf and the Lives of the Obscure” Evangeline Shanti Roy reasons out why Virginia Woolf had a fascination for the unorthodox writing by little-known women, and how Woolf strived to resurrect…
Abstract: The introductory article by Lalitha Ramamoorthy about “Treading the Common Ground: Collective Consciousness in Women’s Autobiography” sets the mood and theme of this issue of Samyukta. It defines autobiography both as a work of art and as a genre.…