Picturing Identity Contemporary American Autobiography in Image and Text / Hertha D. Sweet Wong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wong, Hertha Dawn, author.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity--United States.

Group identity.

Autobiography in art.

Autobiography in literature.

Autobiography.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

Summary:

In this text, Hertha D. Sweet Wong examines the intersection of writing and visual art in the autobiographical work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American writers and artists who employ a mix of written and visual forms of self-narration. Combining approaches from autobiography studies and visual studies, Wong argues that, in grappling with the breakdown of stable definitions of identity and unmediated representation, these writers-artists experiment with hybrid autobiography in image and text to break free of inherited visual-verbal regimes and revise painful histories.

Contents:

Peter Najarian's illustrated memoirs: "'the terror of our history' and a love that may redeem it"

Leslie Marmon Silko's photo-narratives: "a story connected with every place, every object in the landscape"

Art Spiegelman's graphic memoir, Maus: "one is left with what remains, the ruins that are sifted over endlessly"

Julie Chen's artists' books: "the constant search for meaning in the chattering of time"

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's dicte: "a series of metaphors for the return"

Carrie Mae Weems's photo-(auto)biographies: "work that is essential to our cultural dialogue"

Faith Ringgold's story quilts: "all things American in America are about race"

Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds's artwork: "native peoples have chosen art as their cultural tool and weapon."

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908535-5-4

979-88-908535-6-1

1-4696-4071-6

1-4696-4072-4

OCLC:

1034583558