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In Composing Selves, award-winning author Peggy Whitman Prenshaw provides her most comprehensive and theoretically sophisticated treatment of autobiographies by women in the American South. This long-anticipated addition to Prenshaw's study of southern literature spans the twentieth century as she provides an in-depth look at the life-writing of eighteen female authors. Drawing on so many notable authors and her own life-time of scholarship Composing Selves is Prenshaw's master work.

Produktbeschreibung
In Composing Selves, award-winning author Peggy Whitman Prenshaw provides her most comprehensive and theoretically sophisticated treatment of autobiographies by women in the American South. This long-anticipated addition to Prenshaw's study of southern literature spans the twentieth century as she provides an in-depth look at the life-writing of eighteen female authors. Drawing on so many notable authors and her own life-time of scholarship Composing Selves is Prenshaw's master work.
Autorenporträt
Peggy Whitman Prenshaw is Fred C. Frey Professor of Southern Studies Emerita at Louisiana State University and Millsaps College Humanities Scholar-in-Residence. She is the author of Elizabeth Spencer and editor of Conversations with Eudora Welty. She received a lifetime achievement award from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, and the Charles Frankel Prize for service to the humanities.