Free Onsite Seminar: Modern Heroine Autobiography
Tue, Feb 25 · 12 PM
Free Onsite Community Seminar SeriesModern Heroine Autobiographies
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
The genre of autobiography necessarily invokes difficulties of subjectivity, omission, and distortion. At the same time, what one chooses to write about oneself can also be highly illuminating. Nowhere will this tension, and treasure, better reveal itself than in the autobiography of the modern heroine. In addition to the fruitful knowledge any reader would gain from a male writer of historic note, the modern heroine is also a witness, and an inspiration, of the dramatic evolution of technology, equality, and gender politics of the 20th century. We invite you to join this onsite series, reading autobiographies about one month apart.
February 25 Reading:
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, Chapters 11-24 (pages 70-193)
Readings in the Series:
The Story of my Life by Helen Keller
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Art and Writing of Georgia O'Keeffe
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou - ISBN 978-0345514400
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir - ISBN 978-0060825195
The Fun of It by Amelia Earhart - ISBN 978-0915864553
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt - ISBN 978-0062355911
Schedule:
12:00-1:30PM PST
Tutor:
Andy Gilman
Location:
The Ojai Library
111 East Ojai Avenue
Ojai, California 93023