Performing autobiography : narrating a life as activism / Katrina M. Powell.
Performing Autobiography: Narrating a Life as Activism analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed in five authors auto/biographical texts, examining their representations of identities and the public implications of writing individual identity. Exploring the ways race, class, culture, ethnicity, ge...
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2021.
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2021 English/International |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction: Intersections of Genre, Gender, Performance, and Rhetoric
- Chapter 2: Theorizing Rhetorics of Identity to Create Rhetorical Performativity as an Analytic
- Chapter 3: Zora Neale Hurstons Craft and a Griots Refusal to Conform
- Chapter 4: Audre Lordes Intellectual Body: Scripting an Embodied Activism
- Chapter 5: Self-Representation, Genre, and Performativity: Dorothy Allisons Performances Across Genres
- Chapter 6: Joyce Johnsons Alternative Beat Narrative: Women Outside the Fram
- Chapter 7: Shirley Geok-lin Lims Embodied Memories: Academic Autobiography, Genre, and Mentorship
- Chapter 8: Performative Auto/biography as Transgressive Archives.