Performing Autobiography

Narrating a Life as Activism

AvKatrina M. Powell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-06-15
Mått:148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:209
Upplaga:21001
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030645977

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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).

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Introduction: Intersections of Genre, Gender, Performance, and Rhetoric.- Chapter 2: Theorizing Rhetorics of Identity to Create Rhetorical Performativity as an Analytic.- Chapter 3: Zora Neale Hurston’s Craft and a Griot’s Refusal to Conform.- Chapter 4: Audre Lorde’s Intellectual Body: Scripting an Embodied Activism.- Chapter 5: Self-Representation, Genre, and Performativity: Dorothy Allison’s Performances Across Genres.- Chapter 6: Joyce Johnson’s Alternative Beat Narrative: Women Outside the Fram.- Chapter 7: Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s Embodied Memories: Academic Autobiography, Genre, and Mentorship.- Chapter 8: Performative Auto/biography as Transgressive Archives.