Life Writing Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas

ISBN-13: 9780367358303 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 256 str.

Eva C. Karpinski; Ricia A. Chansky

Opis

Designed as a contribution to the field of transnational comparative American studies, this book focuses on gender in life writing that exceeds the boundaries of traditional genres. This book was originally published as a special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.

Spis treści

Preface – After Lives: A Reflection on the 2017 IABAA Conference  Introduction – Finding Fragments: The Intersections of Gender and Genre in Life Narratives  Reflections  1. Cultivating Gullibility  2. Marlene Kadar interview with Sidonie Smith – May 15, 2017  Forum: The Work of Marlene Kadar  3. The Work of Marlene Kadar  4. Mar and Me: Following the Traces  5. Marlene Kadar’s Life Writing: Feminist Theory Outside the Lines  6. Working (with) History: Marlene Kadar and Louise DeSalvo  7. Escape from the Colonial Asylum  8. Inside the Cover, Outside the Archive: Reading the Dispersal of Jane Rule’s Library and Modes of Female Sociability  9. Maternal Stars of the Silent Screen: Gender, Genre, and Photoplay Magazine  10. Unlikely Documents, Unexpected Places: The Limits of Archive  11. Frayed Edges: Selfies, Auschwitz, and a Blushing Emoticon  12. Kim Thúy’s Ru and the Art of the Anecdote  13. Drawing a Narrative Landscape with Women Refugees  Essays  14. Translanguaging and Autobiogeography as Decolonial Strategies for Writing Life Narratives within Displacement  15. Sick Women, Sad Girls, and Selfie Theory: Autotheory as Contemporary Feminist Practice  16. Remembering Forgetting: Graphic Lives at the End of the Line  17. Childhood Exile: Memories and Returns  18. Women Making Freedom: Locating Gender in Intra-Caribbean Migration from a Curaçaoan Perspective  The Process  19. Rejecting Objectivity: Reflections of a Black Feminist Researcher Interviewing Black Women  How Would You Teach It?  20. The Work of Teaching Women’s Auto|Bio Comics