Hybridity in Life Writing

Arnaud Schmitt is a professor of American Studies at the University of Pau, France. His field of research is contemporary American literature and he has worked extensively on the concepts of autofiction and self-narration for almost two decades. His book, The Photographer as Autobiographer, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2022

• 1 Introduction, Arnaud Schmitt.- Section I. Photography, text, photographic texts_2 Teresa Bruś, ‘Arenas of Hybridity’.- 3 Nancy Pedri, ‘Photography, Intermediality, and Graphic Illness Narratives’.- 4 Griselda Pollock in dialogue with Joanne Leonard, ‘Hybrid forms of Becoming in Being in Pictures: An Intimate Photo Memoir (2008)’.- 5 Laure de Nervaux-Gavoty, ‘In Search of a Lost Past: Family Photography and Postmemory in Michael Ignatieff’s The Russian Album (1987)’.- 6 Clare Brant, ‘Inserting the Manfish: hybridity in underwater memoir illustrations’.- 7 Silvia Hernández, ‘Beyond Authentication: Text and Image in Patti Smith’s Autobiographical Prose Work’.- 8 Marie-Agnès Gay, ‘“Moving shadows disappearing”: Erasure of Self in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Autobiographical “Photo-Essay”’ (Exilée – Temps Morts – Selected Works).- 9 Anne Green Munk, ‘Picturing ourselves through others – Text and Photography in Sally Mann’s Hybrid Life Writing’.- 10 Veronica Ceruti, ‘Writing a Life Written in Pictures: Postmemorial Phototextualities in Helena Janeczek’s La ragazza con la Leica (2017)’.- Section II. The materialities of hybridity: artists, autobiographies, textualities, images and graphic narratives_11 Julia Watson, ‘“This Counter-history”: Teju Cole’s Pandemic Visual Diary on the Kitchen as a Domestic/Postcolonial Medi[t]ation’.- 12 Anthony S. Foy, ‘Black Bodies, Displayed and Displaced: African American Autobiography after the Halftone’.- 13 Alex Belsey, ‘“Leaving the marks in”: the Dialectic of Journal & Drawings by Keith Vaughan’.- 14 Virginia Terry-Sherman, ‘Ambiguous, Enigmatic and Absent Imagery in Contemporary Culinary Memoirs’.- 15 Suzanne Joinson, ‘Messy Archives of the Self: Life Books and Ephemera of Carolee Schneemann and Francesca Woodman’.- 16 Natalie Saudo-Welby, ‘Sounds and Silence made Visible: Cece Bell’s El Deafo (2014)’.- 17 Hélène Tison, ‘Allie Brosh’s Hateful Narcissism’.- 18 Pablo Allepuz García, ‘Autobiographyto Self-Portraiture, or Vice-versa: Narrativity and Visuality in Artists’ Life Writing’