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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki Klappentext With contributions by both artists and scholars, Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography is a unique examination of visual autobiography’s involvement in the global cultural politics of health, disability, and the body. Zusammenfassung With contributions by both artists and scholars, Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography is a unique examination of visual autobiography’s involvement in the global cultural politics of health, disability, and the body. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction. Visual Autobiography in the Frame: Critical Embodiment and Cultural Pedagogy (Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki) I: Proliferating Monstrosity 2. Quickening Paternity: Cyberspace, Surveillance, and the Performance of Male Pregnancy (Sayantani DasGupta) 3. “Virtual” Autobiography? Anorexia, Obsession, and Calvin Klein (Mebbie Bell) 4. Big Judy: Fatness, Shame, and the Hybrid Autobiography (Allyson Mitchell) II: Rupture and Recognition: Body Re-Formations 5. Sex Traitors: Autoethnography by Straight Men (Richard Fung) 6. Looks Can Be Deceiving: Exploring Transsexual Body Alchemy through a Neoliberal Lens (Dan Irving) 7. Visceral (Auto)biographies: Plastic Surgery and Gender in Reality TV (Simon Strick) III: Interior Lives: Conditions of Persistence and Survival 8. My Life as a Museum, or, Performing Indigenous Epistemologies (Peter Morin) 9. Gut Reactions: Mona Hatoum’s Corps étranger (Kim Sawchuk) 10. “Please Don’t Let Me Be Like This!”: Un-wounding Photographic Representations by Persons with Intellectual Disability (Ann Fudge Schormans and Adrienne Chambon) 11. “Why should our bodies end at the skin?” Cancer Pathography, Comics, and Embodiment (Laura McGavin) IV: Spectatorship and Historical Memory: The Ethics of Critical Embodiment 12. Witnessing Genocide and the Challenges of Ethical Spectatorship (Wendy Kozol) 13. Digital Melancholia: Archived Bodies in Carmin Karasic’s With Liberty and Justice for All (Sheila Petty) 14. Connective Tissue: Summoning the Spectator to Visual Autobiography (Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki) References Notes on Contributors ...
