Performing Autobiography: Narrating a Life as Activism - Couverture souple

Powell, Katrina M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3030646009 ISBN 13 : 9783030646004

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

Synopsis

Performing Auto/biography: Narrating a Life as Activism analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed in five authors’ auto/biographical texts, examining their representations of identities and the public implications of writing individual identity. Exploring the ways race, class, culture, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality might affect the form(s) in which writers choose to write (e.g., memoir, fictional autobiography, poetry),  questions how autobiographers challenge notions of genre, truth, and representation. This builds on the argument that constructing identity is a Performing Autobiography performance, one that can simultaneously use and subvert traditional notions of rhetoric and genre. By examining the auto/biographical texts of Zora Neale Hurston, Audre Lorde, Dorothy Allison, Joyce Johnson, and Shirley Geok-lin Lim together, the book theorizes self-representation and genres as rhetorical performances, and therefore their texts can be seen as “performative auto/biography”—transgressive archives where readers are asked to consider their own identities and act accordingly. In doing so, this book contributes to growing theories in feminist rhetorics and auto/biography studies, arguing that these performative genres advocate for life narratives as political and social activism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Katrina M. Powell is Professor of Rhetoric and Writing and Founding Director of the Center for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies at Virginia Tech, USA. She is the author of The Anguish of Displacement: The Politics of Literacy in the Letters of Mountain Families in Shenandoah National Park (2007) and Identity and Power in Narratives of Displacement (2015).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3030646009
• ISBN 13: 9783030646004
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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