Research Catalog

Title

Embodied politics in visual autobiography / edited by Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki.

Publication

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]

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Additional Authors

• Brophy, Sarah.
• Hladki, Janice

Description

x, 308 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Cultural spaces

Uniform Title

Cultural spaces.

Subject

• Visual communication > Social aspects
• Visual communication > Political aspects
• Autobiography > Social aspects
• Autobiography > Political aspects
• Human body in mass media
• Human body in popular culture

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-300).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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 étranger / 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.

ISBN

• 9781442646605 (cloth)
• 1442646608 (cloth)
• 9781442616097 (pbk.)
• 1442616091 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2013497941

OCLC

• 879584199
• SCSB-11535377

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library