San Antonio College Library

"The fear of oblivion obsessed medieval and early modern Europe. Stone, wood, cloth, parchment, and paper all provided media onto which writing was inscribed as a way to ward off loss. And the task was not easy in a world in which writing could be destroyed, manuscripts lost, or books menaced with destruction . Paradoxically, the successful spread of printing posed another danger, that an uncontrollable proliferation of textual materials, of matter...

"Autobiographical Inscriptions contributes a theory of autobiography by women writers of color to this lively repositioning of auto-biography studies. Barbara Rodriguez breaks new ground in the field with a discussion of the ways in which innovations of form and structure bolster the arguments for personhood articulated by Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko, Adrienne Kennedy, and Cecile Pineda."--Jacket....