{"product_id":"witnessing-girlhood-toward-an-intersectional-tradition-of-life-writing-hardback-9780823285495","title":"Witnessing Girlhood; Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing (Hardback) 9780823285495","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWitnessing Girlhood\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eToward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLeigh Gilmore (Author), Elizabeth Marshall (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823285495\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 September 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e160 pages, 12\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.342 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhen more than 150 women testified in 2018 to the sexual abuse inflicted on them by Dr. Larry Nassar when they were young, competitive gymnasts, they exposed and transformed the conditions that shielded their violation, including the testimonial disadvantages that cluster at the site of gender, youth, and race. In \u003ci\u003eWitnessing \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGirlhood\u003c\/i\u003e, Leigh Gilmore and Elizabeth Marshall argue that they also joined a long tradition of autobiographical writing led by women of color in which adults use the figure and narrative of child witness to expose harm and seek justice. \u003ci\u003eW\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eitnessing \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGirlhood \u003c\/i\u003echarts a history of how women use life narrative to transform conditions of suffering, silencing, and injustice into accounts that enjoin ethical response. Drawing on a deep and diverse archive of self-representational forms—slave narratives, testimonio, memoir, comics, and picture books—Gilmore and Marshall attend to how authors return to a narrative of traumatized and silenced girlhood and the figure of the child witness in order to offer public testimony. Emerging within these accounts are key scenes and figures that link a range of texts and forms from the mid–nineteenth century to the contemporary period. Gilmore and Marshall offer a genealogy of the reverberations across timelines, self-representational acts, and jurisdictions of the child witness in life writing. Reconstructing these historical and theoretical trajectories restores an intersectional testimonial history of writing by women of color about sexual and racist violence to the center of life writing and, in so doing, furthers our capacity to engage ethically with representations of vulnerability, childhood, and collective witness.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Witnessing Girlhood   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1.\u003c\/b\u003e Girls in Crisis: Feminist Resistance in Life Writing by Women of Color   13\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e Gender Pessimism and Survivor Storytelling in the Memoir Boom:\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGirl, Interrupted\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAutobiography \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eof a Face\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNanette\u003c\/i\u003e   38\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3.\u003c\/b\u003e Visualizing Sexual Violence and Feminist Child Witness:\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Child's Life and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBecoming Unbecoming\u003c\/i\u003e   63\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4.\u003c\/b\u003e Teaching Dissent through Picture Books:\u003cbr\u003e Girlhood Activism and Graphic Life Writing for the Child   86\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/b\u003e. Twenty-First-Century Formations: Child Witness, Trans Life Writing, and Futurity   101\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e   113\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   115\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   141\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580355539224,"sku":"9780823285495","price":66.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/witnessing-girlhood-toward-an-intersectional-tradition-of-life-writing-hardback-9780823285495","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}