Picturing Identity
Contemporary American Autobiography in Image and Text
By Hertha D. Sweet Wong
280 pp., 7 x 10, 68 halftones, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-4070-9
Published: June 2018 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-4069-3
Published: June 2018 -
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Published: May 2018 -
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Published: May 2018
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Wong considers eight writers-artists, including comic-book author Art Spiegelman; Faith Ringgold, known for her story quilts; and celebrated Indigenous writer Leslie Marmon Silko. Wong shows how her subjects formulate webs of intersubjectivity shaped by historical trauma, geography, race, and gender as they envision new possibilities of selfhood and fresh modes of self-narration in word and image.
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Hertha D. Sweet Wong is associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
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“Providing a fresh perspective on artist/writers from the famous to the lesser-known, Wong’s far-reaching study is sure to pique interest as it treats image and text where they overlap and displace each other. Essential reading for life-writing scholars and art historians alike.”—Emily Hipchen, editor, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
“Picturing Identity stands as an essential text from an astute critic and scholar. Wong sheds light on previously unseen connections that illuminate the striking and evocative interplay between word and image, the verbal and the visual.”—Craig Howes, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa