The Autobiographies of Julia Kristeva, Gisèle Halimi, Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous Beyond "I" Versus "we".

This dissertation examines the way in which four female writers negotiate between "I" and "we" within their autobiographical writing. Recent scholarship on women's autobiography has suggested that women do not write "I" as a purely individual, unitary concept. Critics such as Francoise Lionnet, Nancy K. Miller, Jeanne Perrault and Susan Stanford Friedman have argued that women's autobiography is based upon plural, non-unitary, collective subjectivity.