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Picturing Identity : Contemporary American Autobiography in Image and Text / Hertha D. Sweet Wong.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469640716
  • 9781469640723
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS169 .P538 2018
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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 dicte: "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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Includes bibliographies and index.

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 dicte: "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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