Auto/Biography and Mediation
1. Edition, 2010
569 Pages
ISBN: 978-3-8253-7309-2
Product: Ebook
Edition: PDF
Subject: Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Series: American Studies – A Monograph Series, Volume No.: 190
Available: 19.01.2012
Keywords:
amerikanistische Literaturwissenschaft, Lebensbilder, Medialisierung, Selbstrepräsentation, Biographik, Autobiographik
The essays by American, Asian, Australian and European critics collected here demonstrate the opening up of auto/biography studies to the border-crossing implied by the concept of mediation: processes of social and cultural translation are examined in various forms – from photographic self-representation to oral histories – and practices, from media coverage through marketing of written lives to performing the self. These essays reveal that auto/biography goes much further than the narrow examination of an individual’s life; for instance, life narratives intersect human rights in post-Apartheid South Africa, genomics is haunted by the structure of eugenics, and quilting can reveal a material history to those who can decode it. In mediating these lives, the essays ask us to engage with diverse questions of ethics, gender politics, postcolonial critique, institutional frameworks, and the basic question of how acts of mediation influence the telling and re-telling of lives.
Contrib. by: Alfred Hornung, Craig Howes, Manuela Costantino, Emily Hipchen, Kay Schaffer, Sidonie Smith, Laurie McNeill, Gabriele Linke, Britta Feyerabend, Mirjam Truwant, Marijke Huisman, Susanna Egan, Carmen Birkle, Hannes Schweiger, Julie Rak, Xu Dejin, Jeremy D. Popkin, Roger D. Sell, Micha Gerrit Philipp Edlich, Leili Golafshani, Richard Freadman, Eugene Stelzig, Iona Luica, Johan Callens, Michael K. Glenday, Manfred Mittermayer, Regine Strätling, Heide Isaksen, Shannon Donaldson-McHugh, Bärbel Höttges, Sabine N. Meyer, Kerstin Vogel, John D. Barbour, Evelyn Hawthorne, Paul Vanouse, Mary Montemayor, Yvonne Gutenberger, Sam Raditlhalo, Alexander J. Beissenhirtz, Sabine Sörgel, Chris Barry, Zhang Xin-Ke, Jianqiu Sun, Deborah Holmes, Bernhard Fetz, Ioana Luca
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