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Lee, Katja

 
9781771124294: Limelight: Canadian Women and the Rise of Celebrity Autobiography
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ISBN 10 : 1771124296 ISBN 13 : 9781771124294
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2020

Synopsis

At the heart of fame is the tricky business of image management. Over the last 115 years, the celebrity autobiography has emerged as a popular and useful tool for that project. Using the memoirs of famous Canadian women like L.M. Montgomery, Nellie McClung, the Dionne Quintuplets, Margaret Trudeau, and Shania Twain, Limelight traces the rise of celebrity autobiography in Canada and the role gender has played in the rise to fame and in writing about that experience. Arguing that the celebrity autobiography is always negotiating historically specific conditions, Katja Lee charts a history of celebrity in English Canada and the conditions that shape the way women access and experience fame. These contexts shed light on the stories women tell about their lives and the kinds of public images they cultivate in their autobiographies. As strategies of self-representation change and the pressure to represent the private life escalates, the celebrity autobiography undergoes three distinct shifts in form, function, and content during the period examined in this study. Limelight: Canadian Women and the Rise of Celebrity Autobiography is the first book to explore the history and development of the celebrity autobiography and offers compelling evidence of the critical role of gender and nation in the way fame is experienced and represented.

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À propos de l'auteur

Katja Lee has recently completed a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia and now teaches at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Western Australia. She has published essays on celebrity, public identity performance, and life writing. Her most recent work has been published in Celebrity Studies, Life Writing, and The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. With Lorraine York, she co-edited Celebrity Cultures in Canada.

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Éditeur
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1771124296
ISBN 13 
9781771124294
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
368
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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