Wong, Hertha Dawn, <br/><br/>
Picturing Identity :  Contemporary American Autobiography in Image and Text / 
Hertha D. Sweet Wong. 
 - Chapel Hill :  The University of North Carolina Press,  (c)2018. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469640716 9781469640723 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Group identity--United States.<br/>Autobiography in art.<br/>Autobiography in literature.<br/>Autobiography.<br/>American literature--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS169  / .P538 2018