Bainée-Keay, V., Bigot, C., Alexoe-Zagni, N, Genty, S, Bazin, C., Text and Image in Women’s Life Writing: Picturing the Female Self

Explores the relationship between words and images in women’s life writing
Argues for the importance of images in life writing as part of self-representation
Chapters include a wide range of life-writing works, from page to screen and other artistic media

Contents:

Contents 

1.                   Introduction (Valérie Baisnée-Keay)

Part I  Imaging Identity

2. Thinking through the Book and Reimagining the Page: Julie Chen’s Artists’ Books and Faith Ringgold’s Story Quilts ( Hertha D. Wong)
3. ‘[Un]systematic, even with the image’: Text-image Blurring, Self-Inquiry and Ontological Anxiety in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s works (Marie-Agnès Gay )
4. Womanhood 2.0: A Visual-Verbal-Virtual Redefinition of Womanhood by Janet Mock (Aurelia Mouzet )
5. Authoritatively Her/Self: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Life Writing (Edyta Frelik )

Part II Reframing memories  

6. Fun Homes and Queer Houses of Memory in Alison Bechdel’s Graphic Memoirs ( Heloïse Thomas)  
7. Framing herself then and now: Shirley Geok-lin Lim and the Evolving Practice of Photo Albums (Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni) 
8. Nostalgic Albums or Alternative Lieux de mémoire? The interplay between stories, photographs, and recipes in ethnic culinary memoirs  (Corinne Bigot) 

Part III Elusive textual/visual referentiality

9. Zelda Fitzgerald’s Self-Portraiture: A Strenuous Performance from Ink to Gouache (Elisabeth Bouzonviller)
10. Isabella Bird-Bishop’s 1897 journey up the Yangtze Valley and Beyond: Beyond the Writing/ Photographing Divide ( Floriane Reviron-Piégay)  
11. A Woman’s Life of War Pictures: Elizabeth Butler (1846-1933) ( Nathalie Saudo-Welby) 
12 Whistler’s (Mother’s) Daughter: Image-Text Relations in Marilyn French’s Fictionalized (Auto)biography (Stephanie Genty )

Part IV Visual/textual embodiment

13. “It Is Difficult to Find the Words”: The Image-Text Interface in Lynn Kohlman’s Cancer Auto/biography(Marta Fernández-Morales) 
14. “Creating Together an ‘Unexpected Home’: Navigating the Matrixial Borderspace through Text and Image in Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document (1973–79)   (Justyna Wierzchowska).