Intermediality, Life Writing, and American Studies : : Interdisciplinary Perspectives / / ed. by Nassim Winnie Balestrini, Ina Bergmann.

This collection of essays gathers innovative and compelling research on intermedial forms of life writing by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars. Among their subjects of scrutiny are biographies, memoirs, graphic novels, performances, paratheatricals, musicals, silent films, mov...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series , 61
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Intermediality, Life Writing, and American Studies: A Brief Introduction
  • Making an Entrance, Illustrating a Life: Remediating Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America
  • Illustrations “More Numerous Than We Could Have Expected”: Biography as “Mixed Media” in William Lloyd Garrison, 1805–1879: The Story of His Life Told by His Children (1885–1889)
  • Performing Lives in Nineteenth-Century US-American Culture: From Paratheatricals to Early Cinema
  • Lenny: (Auto‐)biography, Black-and-White, and Juxtapositional Montage in Bob Fosse’s Hollywood Renaissance Biopic
  • The Remediation of Little Edie: From It-Girl to Loony Cat Lady to Cultural Icon
  • Graphic Musical Biography: An Intermedial Case of Musico-Comical Life Writing
  • Ekphrastic Encounters and Word– Photography Configurations in Contemporary Transcultural American Life Writing
  • “A Figment of Someone Elseʼs Imagination”: Intermedial Games in Paul Austerʼs Report from the Interior
  • Auto-Assembling the Self on Social Networking Sites: Intermediality and Transnational Kinship in Online Academic Life Writing
  • Intermedial On/Offstage Auto/Biography: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, Hip Hop, and Historiography
  • Emily Dickinson, Intermediality, and Life Writing: An Interview with Susan Snively
  • The Respectful Biographer’s Empathetic Imagination: An Interview about Intermediality and Life Writing with Brenda Wineapple
  • Note on the Contributors
  • Index