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Text and Image in Women's Life Writing

Picturing the Female Self

Herausgegeben: Baisnée-Keay, Valérie; Bigot, Corinne; Alexoae-Zagni, Nicoleta; Genty, Stephanie; Bazin, Claire

Beschreibung

This book examines the relationship between words and images in various life-writing works produced by nineteenth to twenty-first century American and British women. It addresses the politics of images in women's life writing, contending that the presence or absence of images is often strategic. Including a range of different forms of life writing, chapters draw on traditional (auto)biographies, travel narratives, memoirs, diaries, autofiction, cancer narratives, graphic memoirs, artistic installations, quilts and online performances, as life writing moves from page to screen and other media. The book explores a wide range of women who have crossed the boundary between text and image: painters who have become writers, novelists who have become painters, writers who hesitate between images and words, models who seize the camera, and artists who use the frame as a page.

Autor

Valérie Baisnée-Keay is Associate Professor in English at the University of Paris Saclay, Paris, France. Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni is Associate Professor at Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France. Corinne Bigot is Associate Professor in Postcolonial Literature at Université Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès, France. Stephanie Genty is Associate Professor at the Université d'Évry-Val d'Essonne - Paris-Saclay, France. Claire Bazin is Professor of 19th-Century English and Commonwealth Literature at Paris Nanterre University, France.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-030-84874-3
• 1st edition 2021
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 523g
• ISBN-13: 9783030848743
• ISBN-10: 3030848744
• Artikelnr.: 62209750

Rezensionen

"Through lifewriting texts in various media and modalities, the contributors to Text and Image in Women's Life Writing: Picturing the Female Self engage with text, images, and gender, to reclaim "images of women and by women." The ways that authors and artists deploy images and text may complement, resist, or contradict the other, which enriches the life narrative analysis at the center of the work." (Amy Carlson, Biography, Vol. 46 (2), 2023)

"Text and Image in Women's Life Writing is an impressive collection that admirably achieves its purpose 'to contribute to the ongoing conversation on text, image, and gender' ... . It will be of special interest to H-Biography network members and others ... . For those of us involved in the practice of women's biography, this volume grapples with and provides insights about four highly pertinent areas, namely, identity, memory, referentiality and embodiment." (Josephine May, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, April, 2022)