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Picturing identity : contemporary American autobiography in image and text / Hertha D. Sweet Wong.

Wong, Hertha Dawn, (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9781469640693
  • ISBN: 1469640694
  • ISBN: 9781469640709
  • ISBN: 1469640708
  • Physical Description: xii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-257) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Peter Najarian's illustrated memoirs: "'the terror of our history' and a love that may redeem it" -- Leslie Marmon Silko's photo-narratives: "a story connected with every place, every object in the landscape" -- Art Spiegelman's graphic memoir, Maus: "one is left with what remains, the ruins that are sifted over endlessly" -- Julie Chen's artists' books: "the constant search for meaning in the chattering of time" -- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's dicté: "a series of metaphors for the return" -- Carrie Mae Weems's photo-(auto)biographies: "work that is essential to our cultural dialogue" -- Faith Ringgold's story quilts: "all things American in America are about race" -- Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds's artwork: "native peoples have chosen art as their cultural tool and weapon."

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Subject:
American literature > History and criticism.
Autobiography.
Autobiography in literature.
Autobiography in art.
Group identity > United States.
American literature.
Group identity.
United States.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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