Light Writing & Life Writing: Photography in Autobiography - Couverture souple

Adams, Timothy Dow

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807825131 ISBN 13 : 9780807825136

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 1999

Synopsis

On the surface, the use of photography in autobiography appears to have a straightforward purpose: to illustrate and corroborate the text. But in the wake of poststructuralism, the role of photography in autobiography is far from simple or one-dimensional. Both media are increasingly self-conscious, argues Timothy Adams, and combining them intensifies rather than reduces the complexity and ambiguity of each taken separately.

Focusing on works by Paul Auster, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sheila Ortiz Taylor, Sandra Ortiz Taylor, N. Scott Momaday, Michael Ondaatje, Reynolds Price, Eudora Welty, Wright Morris, and Edward Weston, Adams explores the ways in which text and image can interact with and reflect on one another. Photography may stimulate, inspire, or seem to document autobiography, he demonstrates, but it may also confound verbal narrative. Conversely, autobiography may mediate, motivate, or even take the form of photography. Because both media exist on the border between fact and fiction, Adams argues, they often undercut just as easily as they reinforce each other. Exploring the interrelations between photography and autobiography uncovers an inherent tendency in both to conceal as much as they reveal.
|This discussion of the role of photography in autobiography finds an inherent tendency in both to conceal as much as they reveal. Authors discussed include Paul Auster, Maxine Hong Kingston, Michael Ondaatje, Reynolds Price, and Eudora Welty.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Timothy Dow Adams, author of Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography, is professor of English at West Virginia University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807825131
• ISBN 13: 9780807825136
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
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