Picturing Identity
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American studies
Art Spiegelman
artists' books
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Autobiography
Carrie Mae Weems
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comics
cultural studies
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Faith Ringgold
gender
graphic memoir
Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds
historical trauma
identity
installation art
Julie Chen
Leslie Marmon Silko
multiethnic American literature
Native American studies
Peter Najarian
photo-autobiography
photography
race
story quilts
subjectivity
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
visual autobiography
visual studies
Product details
- ISBN 9781469640693
- Weight: 705g
- Dimensions: 177 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jun 2018
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this book, 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 each of whom employ a mix of written and visual forms of self-narration. Combining approaches from autobiography studies and visual studies, Wong argues that 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. These works provide an interart focus for examining the possibilities of self-representation and self-narration, the boundaries of life writing, and the relationship between image and text.
Wong considers eight writers-artists including comic-book author Art Spiegelman; Faith Ringgold, known for her story quilts; and celebrated Indigenous writer Leslie Marmon Silko. Wong shows how her subjects formulate webs of intersubjectivity shaped by historical trauma, geography, race, and gender as they envision new possibilities of selfhood and fresh modes of self-narration in word and image.
Wong considers eight writers-artists including comic-book author Art Spiegelman; Faith Ringgold, known for her story quilts; and celebrated Indigenous writer Leslie Marmon Silko. Wong shows how her subjects formulate webs of intersubjectivity shaped by historical trauma, geography, race, and gender as they envision new possibilities of selfhood and fresh modes of self-narration in word and image.
Hertha D. Sweet Wong is associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
