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1. Introduction: Valérie Baisnée-Keay.- 2. Contrapuntal Reading in Women’s Comics: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Ellen Forney’s Marbles: Julia Watson and Sidonie Smith.- 3. Rimbaud’s Daughter or Ginsberg’s Son? Patti Smith’s Literary Fathers and Mothers in Just Kids (2010): Stephanie Genty.- 4. Reading and Rewriting Herself: Anna Jameson’s Literary Exploration of Canada (1837): Anne-Florence Quaireau.- 5.“The trouble with a book…”: Reading, Writing and Transgression in Jeanette Winterson’s Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? (2011): Valérie Baisnée-Keay.- 6.The Art of Mis-Reading: Life’s Writing in Virginia Woolf’s Essays: Nicolas-Pierre Boileau.- 7. Plunged in a Book: Nathalie Sarraute, Monique Wittig, Hélène Cixous and The Literature of Experience: Ann Jefferson.- 8. Nancy Huston’s Bad Girl : Classes de littérature: When the Autobiographer Plays Hooky: Anne-Claire Marpeau.- 9. The Diary of Alice James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Reader: Laure de Nervaux-Gavoty.- 10. Reading as Emancipation in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861): Delphine Louis-Dimitrov.- 11. Hannah Crafts’ Dialogizing Autobiography, The Bondwoman’s Narrative: Josette Spartacus.- 12. Janet Frame’s Autobiographical Trilogy: Birth of an Oeuvre: Claire Bazin.- 13. Writing Herself as/in Reading the Others in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being (2013): Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni.- 14. Haunting Books and Stories in Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Postethnic Family Memoir Honey and Ashes (1998): Corinne Bigot.- 15. Reading Fathers, Writing Self: Selfhood Dissolved in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Poetic Memoir I Love a Broad Margin to My Life (2011): Joan Chiung-huei Chang.- 16. Homemade Tales of Homespun Lives: The Shared Search for Identity in Culinary Memoirs: Virginia Sherman.- 17. Reading Culture(s) in American Indian Women Writers’ Autobiographical Essays: Ludmila Martanovschi.- 18. “Books. Why?” Staging the Reading Act in Louise Erdrich’s Autobiographical Texts: Elisabeth Bouzonviller.