LEADER 03894nam 22006375 450 001 9910485597803321 005 20240326132737.0 010 $a9783030645984 010 $a3030645983 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-64598-4 035 $a(CKB)5590000000487626 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6642436 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6642436 035 $a(OCoLC)1257076003 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-64598-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000487626 100 $a20210614d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPerforming Autobiography $eNarrating a Life as Activism /$fby Katrina M. Powell 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (216 pages) 311 08$a9783030645977 311 08$a3030645975 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction: Intersections of Genre, Gender, Performance, and Rhetoric -- Chapter 2: Theorizing Rhetorics of Identity to Create Rhetorical Performativity as an Analytic -- Chapter 3: Zora Neale Hurston's Craft and a Griot's Refusal to Conform -- Chapter 4: Audre Lorde's Intellectual Body: Scripting an Embodied Activism -- Chapter 5: Self-Representation, Genre, and Performativity: Dorothy Allison's Performances Across Genres -- Chapter 6: Joyce Johnson's Alternative Beat Narrative: Women Outside the Fram -- Chapter 7: Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Embodied Memories: Academic Autobiography, Genre, and Mentorship -- Chapter 8: Performative Auto/biography as Transgressive Archives. 330 $aPerforming Autobiography: Narrating a Life as Activism analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed in five authors' auto/biographical texts, examining their representations of identities and the public implications of writing individual identity. Exploring the ways race, class, culture, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality might affect the form(s) in which writers choose to write (e.g., memoir, fictional autobiography, poetry), Performing Autobiography questions how autobiographers challenge notions of genre, truth, and representation. This builds on the argument that constructing identity is a performance, one that can simultaneously use and subvert traditional notions of rhetoric and genre. By examining the auto/biographical texts of Zora Neale Hurston, Audre Lorde, Dorothy Allison, Joyce Johnson, and Shirley Geok-lin Lim together, the book theorizes self-representation and genres as rhetorical performances, and therefore their texts can be seen as "performative auto/biography"-transgressive archives where readers are asked to consider their own identities and act accordingly. In doing so, this book contributes to growing theories in feminist rhetorics and auto/biography studies, arguing that these performative genres advocate for life narratives as political and social activism. 606 $aComparative literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aFeminism and literature 606 $aComparative Literature 606 $aContemporary Literature 606 $aFeminist Literary Theory 615 0$aComparative literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aFeminism and literature. 615 14$aComparative Literature. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 615 24$aFeminist Literary Theory. 676 $a920 676 $a809.93592 700 $aPowell$b Katrina M.$f1976-$0959329 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910485597803321 996 $aPerforming autobiography$92597525 997 $aUNINA