Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography

With contributions by both artists and scholars, Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography is a unique examination of visual autobiography’s involvement in the global cultural politics of health, disability, and the body.

Sarah Brophy is an associate professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.
Hladki Janice :

Janice Hladki is an associate professor of Theatre and Film Studies in the School of the Arts at McMaster University.

‘This is an important book for those who wish to answer the summons of an uneasy relationship with one’s gaze and what is looked at so that we might reencounter the narratives, the biographies, that have enabled us to see what we do and perhaps come to perceive our stories differently. Such double vision is indispensable.’

Sidonie Smith, Director, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan:

“The essays in this collection engage with important questions in a set of intersecting fields – autobiography studies, new materialist analyses, studies in visuality, and studies of bodies and embodiment.”

Julie Rak, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta:

“What an ambitious and absorbing book about autobiography and the visual! This collection of provocative essays offers a range of responses to the problem of visualizations of selfhood.”