Un/Bound (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Brown, Megan; Lenart-Cheng, Helga

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Life Writing narratives unveil complexities of migration or internal journeys, offering intimate perspectives on adapting to new environments or confronting internal conflicts. Un/Bound is about such narratives, focusing on mobility and borders, the ethical dimensions of cross-border storytelling, access, translation and circulation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040118894
• Artikelnr.: 72273296

Autorenporträt

Megan Brown is Professor of English and Director of Writing at Drake University, where she teaches courses on nonfiction narrative as well as contemporary U.S. literature/cultural studies. She is author of The Cultural Work of Corporations (2009) as well as American Autobiography After 9/11 (2017). Helga Lenart-Cheng is Professor at Saint Mary's College of California. Her research focuses on algorithmic storytelling, critical media studies, theories of narrative, subjectivity and memory, phenomenological hermeneutics, and world literature. Her most recent book, Story Revolutions (2022) studies the role of collective storytelling in democracy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Resisting Confinement Through Translation: Behrouz
Boochani's No Friend But the Mountains 2. Flawed Border Crossings in Life
Writing by Fabienne Kanor and Gisèle Pineau 3. Visual Culture and Diasporic
Self -Writing: Wajdi Mouawad Paints His Way Home 4. Archives in Motion:
Transitional Sites of Identity in Narratives of Displacement 5. "The
Distance ... That Had Been Traversed": Education, Identity, and Public
Literacy in Tara Westover's Educated and Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of
Memory 6. "A Home in My Body": Migration, Infection, and Privilege in
Porochista Khakpour's Sick 7. Teaching Women's Auto Bio Stories: Student
Engagement through Creative, Multimodal Storytelling-Fostering Inclusion
and Diversity through Transcultural Stories of Migration and Change 8.
Loss Made Visible: Women's Graphic Memoirs and the Boundlessness of Grief