@article{THESIS,
      recid = {4308},
      author = {Chen, Lai Wah},
      title = {Writing in Public and Private: Southern White Women’s  Personal Narratives of the American Civil War Era},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {M.A.},
      address = {2022-08},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {When the violence of the American Civil War swept through  the physical as well as the psychological landscape of the  Confederate states, numerous men and women tried to capture  the onslaught of death, destruction, and loss onto paper.  At the time, the searing experiences of war inspired words  to tumble into diaries and journals, and decades later,  into the genre of memoirs and autobiographies as well. By  the early 1900s, southern white women actively joined their  male counterparts as authors in order to recount their  experiences on the home front. White women writers, such as  Louise Wigfall Wright, Mary Polk Branch, Sara Rice Pryor,  and Marion Harland, married memory, history, and  storytelling in order to publicly reshape their accounts  about a personal as well as local and national past. These  narrative revealed how southern white women leveraged their  role as 'women' to make certain kinds of ideological claims  about identity --  further complicated by their  participation in a capitalistic print culture. Each woman  utilized the genre of autobiography to project their own  socio-political visions about gender, race, class, and  nationalism in a public recount of theirs (and others')  lived experiences.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/4308},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.4308},
}