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Just Beneath My Skin: Autobiography and Self-Discovery
Professor Patricia Foster
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Description for Just Beneath My Skin: Autobiography and Self-Discovery
Paperback. These 11 closely linked personal essays chronicle Foster's journey toward new levels of insight and maturity. The text's three section each reveal the mixed messages and stereotypes of southern womanhood by which she was raised - and from which she fled. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 164 x 14. Weight in Grams: 259.
Writing about oneself, says Patricia Foster, ""engages in truth but depends on the imagination, on the life just beneath the skin, a life that's impressionistic and fragile."" These eleven closely linked personal essays are at once an absorbing chronicle of a life fully undertaken and a model for anyone who has contemplated self-investigation through autobiographical writing. The book's three sections each convey a stage of Foster's journey - still ongoing - toward new levels of insight and maturity. ""Inside the Girls' Room"" takes us back to Foster's life in the rural South from the 1950s through the early 1970s. Here ... Read more
Writing about oneself, says Patricia Foster, ""engages in truth but depends on the imagination, on the life just beneath the skin, a life that's impressionistic and fragile."" These eleven closely linked personal essays are at once an absorbing chronicle of a life fully undertaken and a model for anyone who has contemplated self-investigation through autobiographical writing. The book's three sections each convey a stage of Foster's journey - still ongoing - toward new levels of insight and maturity. ""Inside the Girls' Room"" takes us back to Foster's life in the rural South from the 1950s through the early 1970s. Here ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820326887
SKU
V9780820326887
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About Professor Patricia Foster
Patricia Foster is an associate professor in the MFA Program in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa. She is author of All the Lost Girls, editor of Minding the Body and Sister to Sister, and coeditor of The Healing Circle. Foster is a recipient of the PEN/Jerard Fund Award, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, a Dean's Scholar Award, and a ... Read more
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