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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.
This collection of essays offers a stimulating insight into the
practice of reading and the relationship between reading and
writing in women's life writing texts such as memoirs,
autobiographies, diaries, travel logs, and graphic memoirs. It
covers a great variety of writers from literary classics such as
Virginia Woolf to the authors of slave narratives. Some essays
focus on how literary texts help frame a narrative of the self,
acting as models and counter models; others insist on the role of
literature in resisting imposed gendered and ethnic identities. The
essays also show that female writers use reading to deepen their
relationship to the rest of the world. While reading is often
represented as central to life and aesthetic experience, the
collection stresses that there is no single or universal approach
to reading in women's life writing. Taking into account debates
about life writing, the collection opens new fields of
investigation and fully participates in current scholarly
conversations in the field.
This collection of essays offers a stimulating insight into the
practice of reading and the relationship between reading and
writing in women's life writing texts such as memoirs,
autobiographies, diaries, travel logs, and graphic memoirs. It
covers a great variety of writers from literary classics such as
Virginia Woolf to the authors of slave narratives. Some essays
focus on how literary texts help frame a narrative of the self,
acting as models and counter models; others insist on the role of
literature in resisting imposed gendered and ethnic identities. The
essays also show that female writers use reading to deepen their
relationship to the rest of the world. While reading is often
represented as central to life and aesthetic experience, the
collection stresses that there is no single or universal approach
to reading in women's life writing. Taking into account debates
about life writing, the collection opens new fields of
investigation and fully participates in current scholarly
conversations in the field.
New essays engaging with the developing field of literary geography
to devote attention to the "regional" settings of Munro's stories
and how they affect her characters' development or stasis. Alice
Munro, the 2013 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, has
revolutionized the architecture of the short story. This collection
of essays on Munro engages with literary geography, an emergent
interdisciplinary field that is located at the interface between
human geography and literary studies and is one of the most salient
manifestations of the ongoing spatial turn in the arts and
humanities. Critical readings of Munro's stories have labeled her
literary production "regional," since she sets the majority of her
short stories in the area of rural Ontario where she grew up. Until
now, however, little attention has been devoted to the role of that
location in the stories and tothe way that particular setting
interacts with her characters' development or stasis. This
collection contains eleven essays organized in two parts: first,
Conceptualizing Space and Place: Houses, Landscapes, Territory; and
second, Close Readings of Space and Place. Contributors: Corinne
Bigot, Lynn Blin, Giuseppina Botta, Fausto Ciompi, Ailsa Cox,
Christine Lorre-Johnston, Robert McGill, Claire Omhovere,
Anca-Raluca Radu, Eleonora Rao, Caterina Ricciardi. Christine
Lorre-Johnston is a senior lecturer in English at the Sorbonne
Nouvelle in Paris. Eleonora Rao teaches English and American
literatures at the University of Salerno.
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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