Women Activists and Civil Rights Leaders in Auto/Biographical Literature and Films.
Letort, Delphine, editor.; Lebdai, Benaouda, editor.
2018
PN1992.63
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Title Women Activists and Civil Rights Leaders in Auto/Biographical Literature and Films.
ISBN 3319770810
9783319770819
3319770802
9783319770802
9783319770826 (print)
3319770829
9783030083656 (print)
3030083659
9783319770802 (hbk.)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77081-9
Publication Details Springer International Publishing.
Published Cham Springer International Publishing Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (XVI, 231 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-77081-9 doi
Call Number PN1992.63
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.4
Summary This collective book offers new insight on the genres of biography and autobiography by examining the singular path of those deemed to be 'outsiders', such as Winnie Mandela, Ida B. Wells, Malcolm X and Harvey Milk. Its specific focus on these female leaders and civil rights activists, who refused to be constrained by gender, race and class, shifts attention away from the great men of history and places it solely on those who have transformed their personal lives into a fight for collective goals. With an interdisciplinary approach that looks at literature, cinema and cultural studies, Women Activists and Civil Rights Leaders in Auto/Biographical Literature and Cinema argues that life writing is a key source of artistic creativity and activism which enables us to take a fresh look at history.
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Lebdai, Benaouda, editor.
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1. Introduction, Delphine Letort and Benaouda Lebdai
Section 1: The Lives of Women Activists
2. Winnie Madikizela Mandela: the Construction of a South African Political Icon, Benaouda Lebdai
3. 'Revoluting' or writing? Ahdaf Soueif and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, Jacqueline Jondot
4. Autobiography of an Activist: Sophonisba Breckinridge, "Champion of the Championless", Anya Jabour
5. 'Lean In and Tell Me a (True) Story': Sheryl Sandberg's Revision of Feminist History
Section 2: Black History in Auto/biographical Texts
6. The Many Lives of Ida B. Wells: Autobiography, Historical Biography, and Documentary, Delphine Letort
7. Malcolm X: From the Autobiography to Spike Lee's Film, Two Complementary Perspectives on the Man and the Militant Black Leader, Dominique Dubois
8. Michelle Obama: the Voice and Embodiment of (African) American History, Pierre-Marie Loizeau
9. Ghost Writing and Filming Biography in Twelve/12 Years a Slave, Sylvie Charron
Section 3: The Leaders' (Hi)stories in Biographical Films
10. Biographical Motion Pictures and the Resuscitation of "Real Lives", Taïna Tuhkunen
11. "Negro Girl (Meager)": Black Women's In/visibility in Contemporary Films about Slavery, Lisa Botshon and Melinda Plastas
12. Queering the Biopic? Milk (2008) and the Biographic Real, Isabelle Van Peteghem-Tréard
13. In Search of Purcell's Legacy: Tony Palmer's England, My England (1995), Nicole Cloarec
14. Does one Need to be a Man in order to be a Great Man?, Nathalie Prince.

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