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Life Narratives, Creativity, and the Social in the Americas

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Resorting to life narratives as a comprehensive umbrella term and embracing hemispheric American studies paradigms, this edited volume explores the interrelations between life narratives, the social world, creativity, and different forms of media to narrate and (re)present the self to see in which w...

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Other Authors: Raussert, Wilfried (Editor) , Rocha Teixeira, Susana (Editor) , Banerjee, Mita (Contributor) , Behluli, Sofie (Contributor) , Ferrari, Anna (Contributor) , Gerhard, Atalie (Contributor) , Haas, Astrid (Contributor) , Hornung, Alfred (Contributor) , Mehring, Frank (Contributor) , Veauthier, Ines E. (Contributor) , Völz, Sabrina (Contributor)
Format: Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: Berlin Boston De Gruyter [2025]
Series:American frictions volume 11
In: American frictions (volume 11)

Volumes / Articles: Show Volumes / Articles.
DOI:10.1515/9783111551968
Subjects:
Aufsatzsammlung
Autobiografische Literatur
USA
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Author Notes:edited by Wilfried Raussert, Susana Rocha Teixeira
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Life Narratives, Creativity, and the Social in the Americas
  • Part I: Life Narratives
  • Audre Lorde and Jack Kerouac in Mexico and the Creation of Transnational Life Writing
  • Prismatic Life Writing: Drawing the Schwarzwald in Desierto de los Leones. The German American Artist, Designer, and Teacher Winold Reiss in Mexico
  • The Makeover Genre, Life Writing, Men, and Masculinities
  • Part II: Creativity
  • Playing it Cool, or when Experience Meets Creativity: 'An Aesthetics of the Cool' in Life Writings by Olaudah Equiano and Zora Neale Hurston
  • Black Narrative Self-Making in a Changing Scene: The Life and Adventures of James Beckwourth as Western Borderlands Autobiography
  • Bridging Worlds: Individual and Collective Reflections
  • Lonely Descriptions of Art and Life: Olivia Laing's The Lonely City (2016)
  • Part III: The Social
  • Womanist Awakenings in the Multicultural North: How Fatuma Adar's and Méshama Eyob-Austin's Life Writings Represent Black Girlhood in Canada
  • Exposing Sexual Abuse among the Amish and Seeking Social Change: Misty Griffin's Tears of the Silenced
  • Biomediality in the Andes: Life Writing and Disability in Violeta Ayala's and Dan Fallshaw's The Fight
  • Dancing at the Border of Fiction and Fact: David B. Feinberg's Life on the Page between Activism and Literature
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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