{"product_id":"embodied-politics-in-visual-autobiography-paperback-softback-9781442616097","title":"Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography (Paperback \/ softback) 9781442616097","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEmbodied Politics in Visual Autobiography\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSarah Brophy (Edited by), Janice Hladki (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781442616097\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 October 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 17 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.5 x 2 cm, 0.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘This is an important book for those who wish to answer the summons of an uneasy relationship with one’s gaze and what is looked at so that we might reencounter the narratives, the biographies, that have enabled us to see what we do and perhaps come to perceive our stories differently. Such double vision is indispensable.’\u003c\/p\u003e - Tanya Titchkosky (Imaginations Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, Issue 5-2, June, 2015)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom reality television to film, performance, and video art, autobiography is everywhere in today’s image-obsessed age. With contributions by both artists and scholars, \u003cem\u003eEmbodied Politics in Visual Autobiography\u003c\/em\u003e is a unique examination of visual autobiography’s involvement in the global cultural politics of health, disability, and the body. This provocative collection looks at images of selfhood and embodiment in a variety of media and with a particular focus on bodily identities and practices that challenge the norm: a pregnant man in cyberspace, a fat activist performance troupe, indigenous artists intervening in museums, transnational selves who connect disability to war, and many more.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe chapters in \u003cem\u003eEmbodied Politics in Visual Autobiography\u003c\/em\u003e reflect several different theoretical approaches but share a common concern with the ways in which visual culture can generate resistance, critique, and creative interventions. With contributions that investigate digital media, installation art, graphic memoir, performance, film, reality television, photography, and video art, the collection offers a wide-ranging critical account of what is clearly becoming one of the most important issues in contemporary culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction. Visual Autobiography in the Frame: Critical Embodiment and Cultural Pedagogy (Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI: Proliferating Monstrosity\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Quickening Paternity: Cyberspace, Surveillance, and the Performance of Male Pregnancy (Sayantani DasGupta)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. “Virtual” Autobiography? Anorexia, \u003cem\u003eObsession\u003c\/em\u003e, and Calvin Klein (Mebbie Bell)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Big Judy: Fatness, Shame, and the Hybrid Autobiography (Allyson Mitchell)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eII: Rupture and Recognition: Body Re-Formations\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Sex Traitors: Autoethnography by Straight Men (Richard Fung)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Looks Can Be Deceiving: Exploring Transsexual Body Alchemy through a Neoliberal Lens (Dan Irving)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Visceral (Auto)biographies: Plastic Surgery and Gender in Reality TV (Simon Strick)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIII: Interior Lives: Conditions of Persistence and Survival\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. My Life as a Museum, or, Performing Indigenous Epistemologies (Peter Morin)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Gut Reactions: Mona Hatoum’s \u003cem\u003eCorps Étranger\u003c\/em\u003e (Kim Sawchuk)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. “Please Don’t Let Me Be Like This!”: Un-wounding Photographic Representations by Persons with Intellectual Disability (Ann Fudge Schormans and Adrienne Chambon)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. “Why should our bodies end at the skin?” Cancer Pathography, Comics, and Embodiment (Laura McGavin)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIV: Spectatorship and Historical Memory: The Ethics of Critical Embodiment\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Witnessing Genocide and the Challenges of Ethical Spectatorship (Wendy Kozol)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Digital Melancholia: Archived Bodies in Carmin Karasic’s \u003cem\u003eWith Liberty and Justice for All\u003c\/em\u003e (Sheila Petty)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Connective Tissue: Summoning the Spectator to Visual Autobiography (Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681286910232,"sku":"9781442616097","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/embodied-politics-in-visual-autobiography-paperback-softback-9781442616097","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}