Text and Image in Women's Life Writing: Picturing the Female Self

Author:   Valérie Baisnée-Keay ,  Corinne Bigot ,  Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni ,  Stephanie Genty
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
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9783030848774


Pages:   294
Publication Date:   13 January 2023
Format:   Paperback
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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.

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Author:   Valérie Baisnée-Keay ,  Corinne Bigot ,  Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni ,  Stephanie Genty
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.415kg
ISBN:  

9783030848774


ISBN 10:   3030848779
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   13 January 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction - Valérie Baisnée-Keay Part One: Image-ing Identity  1 Thinking through the Book and Reimagining the Page: Julie Chen’s Artists’ Books and Faith Ringgold’s Story Quilts - Hertha D. Wong  2 ‘[Un]systematic, even with the image’: Text-image Blurring, Self-Inquiry and Ontological Anxiety in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s works - Marie-Agnès Gay 3 A Visual-Verbal-Virtual Redefinition of Womanhood by Janet Mock - Aurelia Mouzet 4 Authoritatively Her/Self: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Life Writing - Edyta Frelik  Part Two: Reframing Memories   5 Fun Homes and Queer Houses of Memory in Alison Bechdel’s Graphic Memoirs - Heloise Thomas 6 Framing herself then and now: Shirley Geok-lin Lim and the Evolving Practice of Photo Albums - Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni 7 Nostalgic Albums or Alternative Lieux de mémoire? The interplay between stories, photographs, and illustrated recipes in ethnic culinary memoirs by women - Corinne Bigot  Part Three: Elusive Textual/Visual Referentiality 8 Zelda Fitzgerald’s Self-Portraiture: A Strenuous Performance from Ink to Gouache - Elisabeth Bouzonviller  9 Isabella Bird-Bishop’s 1897 journey up the Yangtze Valley and Beyond: Beyond the Writing/ Photographing Divide - Floriane Reviron-Piégay  10 A Woman’s Life of War Pictures: Elizabeth Butler (1846-1933) - Nathalie Saudo-Welby  11 Whistler’s (Mother’s) Daughter: Image-Text Relations in Marilyn French’s Fictionalized (Auto)biography - Stephanie Genty Part Four: Visual/Textual Embodiment 12 It Is Difficult to Find the Words”: The Image-Text Interface in Lynn Kohlman’s Cancer Auto/biography - Marta Fernández-Morales  13 Creating Together an ‘Unexpected Home’: Navigating the Matrixial Borderspace through Text and Image in Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document (1973–79) - Justyna Wierzchowska

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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)


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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.

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