Journeys Exposed - Womens Writing, Photography, and Mobility

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.

Product details

• Authors: Giorgia Alu, Giorgia Alù
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367665579
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66557-9
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Photography & photographs, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, PHOTOGRAPHY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Photography and photographs