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Journeys Exposed - Womens Writing, Photography, and Mobility

English · Paperback / Softback

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List of contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Narrating, Exposing, Moving

PART I

Performances: Escapes and Resistance

1 Fleeting Photographs and Vanishing Rebels in Melania Mazzucco’s Fiction
2 Stranger at Home: Ornela Vorpsi’s Visual Writing of Endurance

PART II

Intersections: Itinerancies with a Camera

3 Hidden Lights: Monika Bulaj’s Empathic Photo-Reportages of Afghanistan
4 Carla Cerati’s Photo-Textual Social and Personal Journeys

PART III

Tapestries: Transits through Origins

5 Re-writing: Narrations of Family Displacement
6 Re-Imaging: Threads, Laces and Stitches

Conclusion: Multiple Exposures

About the author

Giorgia Alù teaches in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney.

Summary

Journeys Exposed: Women's Writing, Photography, and Mobility examines contemporary literature written by women that are all in different ways related to Italy. It argues that photography provides women with a means to expose aspects of their nomadic self and of the others’ mobile lives within and beyond the writing process.

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