14 Connective Tissue: Summoning the Spectator to Visual Autobiography

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1 Visual Autobiography in the Frame: Critical Embodiment and Cultural Pedagogy 1
5. Part One. Proliferating Monstrosity
6. 2 Quickening Paternity: Cyberspace, Surveillance, and the Performance of Male Pregnancy 31
7. 3 “Virtual” Autobiography? Anorexia, Obsession, and Calvin Klein 48
8. 4 Big Judy: Fatness, Shame, and the Hybrid Autobiography 64
9. Part Two. Rupture and Recognition: Body Re-Formations
10. 5 Sex Traitors: Autoethnography by Straight Men 81
11. 6 Looks Can Be Deceiving: Exploring Transsexual Body Alchemy through a Neoliberal Lens 99
12. 7 Visceral (Auto)biographies: Plastic Surgery and Gender in Reality TV 119
13. Part Three. Interior Lives: Conditions of Persistence and Survival
14. 8 My Life as a Museum, or, Performing Indigenous Epistemologies 137
15. 9 Gut Reactions: Mona Hatoum’s Corps étranger 153
16. 10 “Please Don’t Let Me Be Like This!” Un-wounding Photographic Representations by Persons with Intellectual Disability 171
17. 11 “Why Should Our Bodies End at the Skin?” Cancer Pathography, Comics, and Embodiment 189
18. Part Four. Spectatorship and Historical Memory: The Ethics of Critical Embodiment
19. 12 Witnessing Genocide and the Challenges of Ethical Spectatorship 209
20. 13 Digital Melancholia: Archived Bodies in Carmin Karasic’s With Liberty and Justice for All 225
21. 14 Connective Tissue: Summoning the Spectator to Visual Autobiography 244
22. References 269
23. Notes on Contributors 301
24. Cultural Spaces 307