Performing Autobiography

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).

• 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.