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Text and Image in Women's Life Writing

Picturing the Female Self

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Editors:
  1. Valérie Baisnée-Keay

    1. University of Paris-Saclay, Sceaux, France

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  2. Corinne Bigot

    1. Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France

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  3. Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni

    1. Université Paris 8-Vincennes-Saint Denis, Saint-Denis, France

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  4. Stephanie Genty

    1. Université d’Évry Paris-Saclay, Evry Cedex, France

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  5. Claire Bazin

    1. Paris Nanterre University, Nanterre, France

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Valérie Baisnée-Keay
    Pages 1-18

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 279-294
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About this book

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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“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

  • University of Paris-Saclay, Sceaux, France

    Valérie Baisnée-Keay

  • Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France

    Corinne Bigot

  • Université Paris 8-Vincennes-Saint Denis, Saint-Denis, France

    Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni

  • Université d’Évry Paris-Saclay, Evry Cedex, France

    Stephanie Genty

  • Paris Nanterre University, Nanterre, France

    Claire Bazin

About the editors

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.


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

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