Text and Image in Women's Life Writing Picturing the Female Self
Synopsis
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.Book details
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2021
- Series:
- Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
- Author:
- Valérie Baisnée-Keay, Corinne Bigot, Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni, Claire Bazin, Stephanie Genty
- ISBN:
- 9783030848750
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783030848743
- Publisher:
- Springer International Publishing
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- Yes
- Date of addition:
- 2022-04-29
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Copyright by:
- The Editor
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Art and Architecture, Language Arts, Literature and Fiction, Nonfiction