Auto/Biography and Mediation
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Erschienen im Januar 2012
XVIII, 569 Seiten
978-3-8253-7309-2 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
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.
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- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Writing and Reading Lives
- Craig Howes - Doing Biograpy
- Manuela Costantino - The Sensational Life of Latifa
- Emily Hipchen - Mediating Truths in Adoption Search Narratives
- Mediational Failures
- Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith - Intimacies of Power
- Laurie McNeill - Memory Failure
- Susan Tridgell - Autobiographies of Asylum and Detention
- 2. Mediating Historiers
- Gabriele Linke - "What happend to the story?
- Britta Feyerabend - Quilting Auto/Biographies
- Mirjam Truwant - Female Authorship an the Idea of the German Nation, 1859 to 1939
- Marijke Huisman - Selling the Self: Publishing and Marketing...
- 3. Media Loops
- Susanna Egan - Auto/Biographical Impostures as Media Sensations
- Carmen Birkle - Meditation and Appropriation
- Hannes Schweiger - Borderless Identities?
- Julia Rak - Identity's Industry: Genre and Memoirs
- Xu Dejin - China Narratives, Mediation, and the Problemati of Readership
- Jeremy D. Popkin - Academic Autobiography
- 4. Relational Selves
- Roger D. Sell - Mediational Ethics in Churchill's "My Early Life
- Micha Gerrit, Philipp Edlich - Connecting Selves with Kitkitdizze...
- Leili Golafshani - Negative Relational Autobiography
- Richard Freadman - "What for do I have to remember this
- 5. Inventing the Self
- Eugene Stelzig - Hermann Hesse's Fantastic Mediation(s) of the Self in "Steppenwolf
- Ioana Luca - Between Two Worlds
- Johan Callens - Auto/Biography in American Performance
- Michael K. Glenday - Norman Mailer: Biography and Imaginary Memoir
- 6. Crossing Genres
- Manfred Mittermayer - Intermediality in Thomas Bernhard's Autobiography
- Regine Strätling - Potential Autobiographies
- Heidi Isaksen - The Role of Border-Crossing in Mediating Dominated Voices
- Shannon Donaldson-McHugh - Performing Autobiographical Limits
- 7. Religion and Meditation
- Bärbel Höttges - No God's Land
- Sabine N. Meyer - Writing the Life of a Controversial Historical Figure
- Kerstin Vogel - Mediating Native Lives
- John D. Barbour - Tribal Religions in Modern Travel Narratives by Greene, Lévi-Strauss, and Chatwin
- 8. Mediating Roots and Routes
- Evelyn Hawthorne and Paul Vanouse - Race, Jamaican Bodies, and Eugenics/Genomics
- Mary Montemayor - "Breaking the Silence
- Yvonne Gutenberger - Anne Moody's "Coming of Age in Mississippi
- Sam Raditlhalo - Migrations of Texts: Mediating Double Modernities
- Alexander J. Beissenhirtz - Jazz Autobiographies as Vernacular Literature
- Sabine Sörgel - "Like an endless stream of lava and love...
- Chris Barry - Cultural Dialogues and Self-Constructions in Australia
- 9. Speaking with the Dead
- Zhang Xin-Ke - Tombstone Inscription and Chinese Biography
- Jianqiu Sun - Photograpy and Psychography
- Deborah Holmes - Portraits of a Lady
- Bernhard Fetz - Performance and Mediality
