Free Onsite Seminar Series: Modern Heroine Autobio
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Date & Time
Tue, Oct 22 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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111 East Ojai Ave., Ojai
Free Onsite Community Seminar Series
Modern Heroine Autobiographies
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
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.
October 22 Reading:
Georgia O’Keeffe’s letters and essay. Artwork will also be shown.
Readings in the Series:
The Story of my Life by Helen Keller – ISBN 978-0451531568
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank – PDF online
Art and Writing of Georgia O’Keeffe
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir – ISBN 978-0060825195
The Fun of It by Amelia Earhart – ISBN 978-0915864553
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou – ISBN 978-0345514400
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt – ISBN 978-0062355911
Schedule:
12:00-1:30PM PDT
Tutor:
Andy Gilman
Location:
111 East Ojai Avenue
Ojai, California 93023