Christy Rishoi is Professor of English at Mott College.

Acknowledgments

1. Identity and the Coming-of-Age Narrative

Recreating Womanhood

2. Feminism, Autobiography, and Theories of Subjectivity

Feminism and the Autobiographical Act
Western Theories of Subjectivity
Feminist Poststructuralist Revisions of Subjectivity

3. Coming of Age in America

Historical Accounts of Adolescence
Psychological Accounts of Adolescence
Literary Accounts of Coming of Age
The Coming-of-Age Narrative
American Grand Narratives of Coming of Age

4. Specifying American Girlhood: Annie Dillard and Anne Moody

Specifying the Universal in An American Childhood
Hegemonic Inscription of the Body in Coming of Age in Mississippi

5. "Lying Contests": Fictional Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction

"Lying Contests": Signifying Coming of Age
Janie's Ways of Knowing

6. "Room for Paradoxes": Creating a Hybrid Identity

A "World of Paper Strengths": The Education of Kate Simon
Mythology and Narrative in the Creation of Identity: The Woman Warrior

Notes
Works Cited
Index