Subjects
Autobiography -- Women authors -- History and criticism, Autobiography -- Philosophy
Abstract
While Margery Kempe, fourteenth century English country wife and mystic/pilgrim, and Lady Nijo, thirteenth century Japanese imperial concubine and itinerant Buddhist nun, might at first seem disparate subjects, this paper argues that the themes of pilgrimage and the act of writing an autobiography link them together in interesting ways. By tracing the ways in which both authors form their autobiographies and by using critical theories of autobiography a theme repeatedly appears, that of the welcoming nature of the wilderness of the faith pilgrimage and of the wandering paths both women took in their search for salvation
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Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/13182
Recommended Citation
Douglass, Merlin
(1991)
"Investigations of Self,"
Anthós Journal (1990-1996): Vol. 1:
No.
2, Article 12.
Available at:
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/anthos_archives/vol1/iss2/12
