Shattered subjects : trauma and testimony in women's life-writing / Suzette A. Henke.

Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1998.

xxii, 216 pages ; 22 cm

Colette's autofictions : genre and engenderment. The earthly paradise ; My apprenticeships: the specter of Willy ; Break of day ; Postscript -- H.D. : psychoanalytic self-imaging. The gift ; Adult trauma and the Madrigal cycle: Asphodel and Bid me to live -- Anaïs Nin's interior cities : incest, anxiety, and father-daughter loss. Father loss and incest ; Daughter loss and maternal anxiety ; Narrative recovery -- Janet Frame's New Zealand Autobiography : a postcolonial odyssey -- Andre Lorde's African-American testimony. Biomythography: Zami, a new spelling of my name ; Autopathography: The cancer journals and A burst of light -- Sylvia Fraser's My father's house : a Canadian memoir of sexual trauma and narrative recovery.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-208) and index.