Format:
1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 240 Seiten)
Edition:
Reproduktion Issued also in print
ISBN:
9783111551968
Series Statement:
American frictions volume 11
Content:
Resorting to life narratives as a comprehensive umbrella term and embracing hemispheric American studies paradigms, this edited volume explores the interrelations between life narratives, the social world, creativity, and different forms of media to narrate and (re)present the self to see in which way these expressions offer (new) means of (self-) representation within cultural productions from the Americas. Creativity in the context of life narratives nourishes the act of narrating and propels among others the desire to link individual life stories with larger stories of social embeddedness, conditioning, and transformation thus pushing new forms of historiography and other forms of nonfictional writing. Accordingly, the creative impulse fuses individual and collective experience with a larger understanding of the social including the latter's local and global embeddedness. The contributions in this volume analyze the ways in which the dynamics, tensions, and reciprocities between narrative, creativity, and the social world unfold in life narratives from the Americas. In particular, this volume addresses scholars and students of life writing, cultural and literary studies, gender, disability and postcolonial studies with new insights into life narratives from the Americas
Note:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: Life Narratives, Creativity, and the Social in the Americas -- Part I: Life Narratives -- Audre Lorde and Jack Kerouac in Mexico and the Creation of Transnational Life Writing -- Prismatic Life Writing: Drawing the Schwarzwald in Desierto de los Leones. The German American Artist, Designer, and Teacher Winold Reiss in Mexico -- The Makeover Genre, Life Writing, Men, and Masculinities -- Part II: Creativity -- Playing it Cool, or when Experience Meets Creativity: 'An Aesthetics of the Cool' in Life Writings by Olaudah Equiano and Zora Neale Hurston -- Black Narrative Self-Making in a Changing Scene: The Life and Adventures of James Beckwourth as Western Borderlands Autobiography -- Bridging Worlds: Individual and Collective Reflections -- Lonely Descriptions of Art and Life: Olivia Laing's The Lonely City (2016) -- Part III: The Social -- Womanist Awakenings in the Multicultural North: How Fatuma Adar's and Méshama Eyob-Austin's Life Writings Represent Black Girlhood in Canada -- Exposing Sexual Abuse among the Amish and Seeking Social Change: Misty Griffin's Tears of the Silenced -- Biomediality in the Andes: Life Writing and Disability in Violeta Ayala's and Dan Fallshaw's The Fight -- Dancing at the Border of Fiction and Fact: David B. Feinberg's Life on the Page between Activism and Literature -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
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Issued also in print
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783111552705
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783111550220
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Life narratives, creativity, and the social in the Americas Berlin : De Gruyter, 2025 ISBN 9783111550220
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3111550222
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
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Autobiografische Literatur
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1515/9783111551968
Author information:
Raussert, Wilfried 1960-
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