Life writing outside the lines : gender and genre in the Americas /
Designed as a contribution to the field of transnational comparative American studies, this book focuses on gender in life writing that exceeds the boundaries of traditional genres. The contributors engage with authors who bend genres`to speak gender as it manifests in multiple shapes in different g...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Routledge,
[2020]
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| Summary: | Designed as a contribution to the field of transnational comparative American studies, this book focuses on gender in life writing that exceeds the boundaries of traditional genres. The contributors engage with authors who bend genres`to speak gender as it manifests in multiple shapes in different geographic locations across the Americas, and especially as it intersects with race and migration, war and colonialism, illness and aging. In addition to supplying new insights into the established sites of auto/biographical production such as memoir, archive and oral history, the book explores experimental mixed forms such as selfies, auto-theory, auto/bio comics and autobiography. By combining multi-genre and multi-media perspectives with a multi-generational approach to life writing, The book showcases a spectrum of established and emerging critical voices, many of whom have been influenced by the work or Marlene Kadar, the Canadian life writing scholar, whose interventions have expanded the feminist and interdisciplinary methods of life writing studies. Tracing the intergenerational relay of ideas, this collection fosters dialogue across the Western Hemisphere, and will be useful to those studying life writing exchanges between North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. |
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| Physical Description: | xxvi, 255 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0367358301 9780367358303 |