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Introduction: Witnessing Girlhood | 1
1. Girls in Crisis: Feminist Resistance in Life Writing by Women of Color | 13
2. Gender Pessimism and Survivor Storytelling in the Memoir Boom:
Girl, Interrupted, Autobiography of a Face, and Nanette | 38
3. Visualizing Sexual Violence and Feminist Child Witness:
A Child’s Life and Other Stories and Becoming Unbecoming | 63
4. Teaching Dissent through Picture Books:
Girlhood Activism and Graphic Life Writing for the Child | 86
Epilogue. Twenty-First-Century Formations: Child Witness, Trans Life Writing, and Futurity | 101
Acknowledgments | 113
Notes | 115
Index | 141

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: 17/09/2019
      ISBN13: 9780823285488, 978-0823285488
      ISBN10: 0823285480
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Witnessing Girlhood | 1
      1. Girls in Crisis: Feminist Resistance in Life Writing by Women of Color | 13
      2. Gender Pessimism and Survivor Storytelling in the Memoir Boom:
      Girl, Interrupted, Autobiography of a Face, and Nanette | 38
      3. Visualizing Sexual Violence and Feminist Child Witness:
      A Child’s Life and Other Stories and Becoming Unbecoming | 63
      4. Teaching Dissent through Picture Books:
      Girlhood Activism and Graphic Life Writing for the Child | 86
      Epilogue. Twenty-First-Century Formations: Child Witness, Trans Life Writing, and Futurity | 101
      Acknowledgments | 113
      Notes | 115
      Index | 141

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