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Witnessing girlhood : toward an intersectional tradition of life writing / Leigh Gilmore and Elizabeth Marshall

Gilmore, Leigh, 1959- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Marshall, Elizabeth, 1968- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

First Edition

New York : Fordham University Press, 2019

146 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-8232-8548-8 (paperback); 978-0-8232-8549-5 (hardback)

2019028513

OCoLC: 1126551446     

EC 2230      Ähnliche Literatur

HQ798

305.23082

Basisklassifikation: 18.00 (Einzelne Sprachen und Literaturen allgemein) ; 71.61 (Diskriminierung) ; 71.31 (Geschlechter und ihr Verhalten) ; 71.35 (Kindersoziologie; Jugendsoziologie)

*Mädchen ; Frau ; Diskriminierung ; Sexueller Missbrauch ; Autoethnografie ; Geschichte 1850-2019     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Girls -- Social conditions ; Child witnesses ; Minority women -- Biography ; Autobiographies -- Women authors ; Biography as a literary form

Girls in crisis: feminist resistance in life writing by women of color -- Gender pessimism and survivorstorytelling in the memoir boom: Girl, interrupted, Autobiography of a face, and Nanette -- Visualizing sexual violence and feminist child witness: A child's life and other stories and Becoming unbecoming -- Teaching dissent through picture books:girlhood activism and graphic life writing for the child -- Epilogue: twenty-first-century formations: child witness, trans life writing, and futurity.

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"When over 150 women testified in 2018 to the sexual abuse inflicted on them by Dr. Larry Nassar when they were young competitive gymnasts, they exposed and transformed the conditions that shielded their violation, including the testimonial disadvantages that cluster at the site of gender, youth, and race. In Witnessing Girlhood, Leigh Gilmore and Elizabeth Marshall argue that they also joined a long tradition of autobiographical writing lead by women of color in which adults use the figure and narrative of child witness to expose harm and seek justice. Witnessing Girlhood charts a history of how women use life narrative to transform conditions of suffering, silencing, and injustice into accounts that enjoin ethical response. Drawing on a deep and diverse archive of self-representational forms-slave narratives, testimonio, memoir, comics, and picture books- Gilmore and Marshall attend to how authors return to a narrative of traumatized and silenced girlhood and the figure of the child witness in order to offer public testimony. Emerging within these accounts are key scenes and figures that link a range of texts and forms from the mid nineteenth century to the contemporary period. Gilmore and Marshall offer a genealogy of the reverberations across timelines, self-representational acts, and jurisdictions of the child witness in life writing. Reconstructing these historical and theoretical trajectories restores an intersectional testimonial history of writing by women of color about sexual and racist violence to the center of life writing, and, in so doing, furthers our capacity to engage ethically with representations of vulnerability, childhood, and collective witness"--