Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography

Herausgeber: Brophy, Sarah; Hladki, Janice

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Produktbeschreibung

From reality television to film, performance, and video art, autobiography is everywhere in today’s image-obsessed age. 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. This provocative collection looks at images of selfhood and embodiment in a variety of media and with a particular focus on bodily identities and practices that challenge the norm: a pregnant man in cyberspace, a fat activist performance troupe, indigenous artists intervening in museums, transnational selves who connect disability to war, and many more. The chapters in Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography reflect several different theoretical approaches but share a common concern with the ways in which visual culture can generate resistance, critique, and creative interventions. With contributions that investigate digital media, installation art, graphic memoir, performance, film, reality television, photography, and video art, the collection offers a wide-ranging critical account of what is clearly becoming one of the most important issues in contemporary culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781442646605
• ISBN-10: 1442646608
• Artikelnr.: 41029317

Autorenporträt

Edited by Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. Visual Autobiography in the Frame: Critical Embodiment and
Cultural Pedagogy (Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki)
I: Proliferating Monstrosity
2. Quickening Paternity: Cyberspace, Surveillance, and the Performance of
Male Pregnancy (Sayantani DasGupta)
3. “Virtual” Autobiography? Anorexia, Obsession, and Calvin Klein (Mebbie
Bell)
4. Big Judy: Fatness, Shame, and the Hybrid Autobiography (Allyson
Mitchell)
II: Rupture and Recognition: Body Re-Formations
5. Sex Traitors: Autoethnography by Straight Men (Richard Fung)
6. Looks Can Be Deceiving: Exploring Transsexual Body Alchemy through a
Neoliberal Lens (Dan Irving)
7. Visceral (Auto)biographies: Plastic Surgery and Gender in Reality TV
(Simon Strick)
III: Interior Lives: Conditions of Persistence and Survival
8. My Life as a Museum, or, Performing Indigenous Epistemologies (Peter
Morin)
9. Gut Reactions: Mona Hatoum’s Corps étranger (Kim Sawchuk)
10. “Please Don’t Let Me Be Like This!”: Un-wounding Photographic
Representations by Persons with Intellectual Disability (Ann Fudge
Schormans and Adrienne Chambon)
11. “Why should our bodies end at the skin?” Cancer Pathography, Comics,
and Embodiment (Laura McGavin)
IV: Spectatorship and Historical Memory: The Ethics of Critical Embodiment
12. Witnessing Genocide and the Challenges of Ethical Spectatorship (Wendy
Kozol)
13. Digital Melancholia: Archived Bodies in Carmin Karasic’s With Liberty
and Justice for All (Sheila Petty)
14. Connective Tissue: Summoning the Spectator to Visual Autobiography
(Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki)
References
Notes on Contributors