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portada Witnessing Girlhood: Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2019
Language
English
Pages
160
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9780823285488
Edition No.
1
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Witnessing Girlhood: Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing

Leigh Gilmore; Elizabeth Marshall (Author) · Fordham University Press · Paperback

Witnessing Girlhood: Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing - Leigh Gilmore; Elizabeth Marshall

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Synopsis "Witnessing Girlhood: Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing "

When more than 150 women testified in 2018 to the sexual abuse inflicted on them by Dr. Larry Nassar when they were young, competitive gymnasts, they exposed and transformed the conditions that shielded their violation, including the testimonial disadvantages that cluster at the site of gender, youth, and race. In Witnessing Girlhood, Leigh Gilmore and Elizabeth Marshall argue that they also joined a long tradition of autobiographical writing led by women of color in which adults use the figure and narrative of child witness to expose harm and seek justice. Witnessing Girlhood charts a history of how women use life narrative to transform conditions of suffering, silencing, and injustice into accounts that enjoin ethical response. Drawing on a deep and diverse archive of self-representational forms―slave narratives, testimonio, memoir, comics, and picture books―Gilmore and Marshall attend to how authors return to a narrative of traumatized and silenced girlhood and the figure of the child witness in order to offer public testimony. Emerging within these accounts are key scenes and figures that link a range of texts and forms from the mid–nineteenth century to the contemporary period. Gilmore and Marshall offer a genealogy of the reverberations across timelines, self-representational acts, and jurisdictions of the child witness in life writing. Reconstructing these historical and theoretical trajectories restores an intersectional testimonial history of writing by women of color about sexual and racist violence to the center of life writing and, in so doing, furthers our capacity to engage ethically with representations of vulnerability, childhood, and collective witness.

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