Overview
- Explores the relationship between words and images in women’s life writing
- Argues for the importance of images in life writing as part of self-representation
- Chapters include a wide range of life-writing works, from page to screen and other artistic media
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing (PSLW)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Imagining Identity
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Reframing Memories
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Elusive Textual/Visual Referentiality
Reviews
“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)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Text and Image in Women's Life Writing
Book Subtitle: Picturing the Female Self
Editors: Valérie Baisnée-Keay, Corinne Bigot, Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni, Stephanie Genty, Claire Bazin
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84875-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84874-3Published: 12 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84877-4Published: 13 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84875-0Published: 12 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2730-9185
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9193
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 294
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Literary Theory, Literature, general, Arts