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Women Activists and Civil Rights Leaders in Auto/Biographical Literature and Films

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Editors:
  1. Delphine Letort

    1. Le Mans University, Le Mans, France

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  2. Benaouda Lebdai

    1. Le Mans University, Le Mans, France

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  • Promotes women activists and minority figures in a unique way
  • Provides an original spin on the notions of autobiography and biography
  • Offers a comprehensive study that is both interdisciplinary and wide-ranging, including an extensive list of international icons

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Delphine Letort, Benaouda Lebdai
    Pages 1-9

  5. Biographical Films and History

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. Biographical Motion Pictures and the Resuscitation of “Real Lives”

      • Taïna Tuhkunen
      Pages 153-170

    3. “Negro Girl (meager)”: Black Women’s In/Visibility in Contemporary Films About Slavery

      • Lisa Botshon, Melinda Plastas
      Pages 171-188

    4. Queering the Biopic? Milk (2008) and the Biographic Real

      • Isabelle Van Peteghem-Tréard
      Pages 189-205

    5. In Search of Purcell’s Legacy: Tony Palmer’s England, My England (1995)

      • Nicole Cloarec
      Pages 207-220

  6. Postface

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221
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    2. Does One Need to Be a Man to Be a Great Man?

      • Nathalie Prince
      Pages 223-226

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 227-231
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About this book

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. 

Reviews

“This book shows, on the basis of a number of striking women, that history and its perception is a construction that can still be cultivated. The authors of this volume demonstrate that the history of women is not automatically 'women's history', but an inextricable and often misunderstood part of our history.”  (Hans Renders, University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Le Mans University, Le Mans, France

    Delphine Letort, Benaouda Lebdai

About the editors

Delphine Letort is a Professor in American Studies at Le Mans University, France.

Benaouda Lebdai is an Emeritus Professor in Colonial and Postcolonial literatures at Le Mans University, France.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Women Activists and Civil Rights Leaders in Auto/Biographical Literature and Films

  • Editors: Delphine Letort, Benaouda Lebdai

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77081-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77080-2Published: 18 May 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08365-6Published: 20 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77081-9Published: 03 May 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 231

  • Topics: Screen Studies, Culture and Gender, US History

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