Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia | Travel Writing as Autobiography: Rebecca West’s Journey of Self-Discovery
In the following essay, Goldsworthy explores the introspective nature of West’s travel work and locates its autobiographical elements.
A belief in the broader relevance of the individual voice, implicitly present in any (auto)biographical work, has meant that—until relatively recently— there were few purely autobiographical writings by women. Privileged ‘historical’ insight, such as that provided by high political office or military leadership, is still viewed as a prerequisite for memoir writing. It is hardly surprising that women writers continue to seek other outlets for a record of their own time and thought. Travel writing is one of the more obviously ‘self-legitimizing’ genres which has offered women a...
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