Text and Image in Women's Life Writing

Valérie Baisnée-Keay (1, 2) , Corinne Florence Bigot (3, 1) , Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni (4, 1) , Stephanie Genty (5, 1) , Claire Bazin (1)

1 CREA (EA 370) - Centre de Recherches Anglophones
2 Université Paris-Saclay
3 CAS - Cultures anglo-saxonnes
4 TransCrit - Transferts critiques anglophones
5 SLAM - Synergies Langues Arts Musique

This book examines the relationship between words and images in various life-writing works produced by nineteenth to twenty-first century American and British women. It addresses the politics of images in women's life-writing, contending that the presence or absence of images is often strategic. Including a range of different forms of life-writing, chapters draw on traditional (auto)biographies, travel narratives, memoirs, diaries, autofiction, cancer narratives, graphic memoirs, artistic installations, quilts and online performances, as life-writing moves from page to screen and other media. The book explores a wide range of women who have crossed the boundary between text and image: painters who have become writers, novelists who have become painters, writers who hesitate between images and words, models who seize the camera, and artists who use the frame as a page.

Mots clés: Text and image, life-writing, autobiography, women's literature

Domaines: Littératures

Valérie Baisnée-Keay, Corinne Florence Bigot, Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni, Stephanie Genty, Claire Bazin (Dir.). Text and Image in Women's Life Writing: Picturing the Female Self. Springer International Publishing, 294 p., 2021, Palgrave Studies in Life Writing, Clare Brant, Max Saunders, 978-3-030-84874-3. ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-84875-0⟩. ⟨hal-03643695⟩