UID:
edocfu_9959230624602883
Format:
1 online resource (319 p.)
ISBN:
1-4426-6615-3
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1-4426-6614-5
Series Statement:
Cultural Spaces
Content:
With contributions by both artists and scholars, Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography is a unique examination of visual autobiography's involvement in the global cultural politics of health, disability, and the body.
Note:
Visual autobiography in the frame : critical embodiment and cultural pedagogy / Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki -- Part 1. Proliferating monstrosity. Quickening paternity : cyberspace, surveillance, and the performance of male pregnancy / Sayantani Dasgupta -- "Virtual" autobiography? Anorexia, Obsession, and Calvin Klein / Mebbie Bell -- Big Judy : fatness, shame, and the hybrid autobiography / Allyson Mitchell -- Part 2. Rupture and recognition : body re-formations. Sex traitors : autoethnography by straight men / Richard Fung -- Looks can be deceiving : exploring transsexual body alchemy through a neoliberal lens / Dan Irving -- Visceral (auto)biographies : plastic surgery and gender in reality TV / Simon Strick -- Part 3. Interior lives : conditions of persistence and survival. My life as a museum, or, performing indigenous epistemologies / Peter Morin -- Gut reactions : Mona Hatoum's Corps etranger / Kim Sawchuk -- "Please don't let me be like this!" Un-wounding photographic representations by persons with intellectual disability / Ann Fudge Schormans and Adrienne Chambon -- "Why should our bodies end at the skin?" Cancer pathography, comics, and embodiment / Laura McGavin -- Part 4. Spectatorship and historical memory : the ethics of critical embodiment. Witnessing genocide and the challenges of ethical spectatorship / Wendy Kozol -- Digital melancholia : archived bodies in Carmin Karasic's With liberty and justice for all / Sheila Petty -- Connective tissue : summoning the spectator to visual autobiography / Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki.
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4426-4660-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4426-1609-1
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.3138/9781442666146
