Download or read book Mapping the Private Geography written by Gerri Reaves and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2001-01-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of autobiographical writing and its reflection of personal and national identity analyzes the different ways in which these authors balance individual American identity with collective identities and reinvent their familial, cultural, and national engenderings. In each of the works discussed, a private geography - a psychological map, a myth, an ideology, or a fiction - is posited, while its author explores claims to the ownership of memory, history, and the self.