This Woman in Particular
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This Woman in Particular

Contexts for the Biographical Image of Emily Carr

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This Woman in Particular

Contexts for the Biographical Image of Emily Carr

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What happens when an individual becomes the subject of many and divergent portraits?

"Biography, " says Stephanie Kirkwood Walker, "is a deceptive genre. Positioned between fact and fiction and elusive in its purposes, biography displays an individual life, an existence patterned by conventions that have also shaped the reader's experience." In This Woman in Particular, Walker explores versions of Emily Carr's life that have appeared over the last half-century.

Walker contends that the biographical image of Emily Carr that emerges from an accumulation of biographies, films, plays and poetry as well as her own autobiographical writing establishes an elaborated cultural artefact — an "image" that is bound by its very nature to remain forever incomplete and always elusive. She demonstrates how changes in Carr's biographical image parallel the maturing of Canadian biographical writing, reflecting attitudes toward women artists and the shifting balance between religion, secular attitudes and contemporary spirituality. And she concludes that biography plays a crucial role in all our lives in initiating and sustaining debate on vital personal and collective concerns.

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Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
9780889205659
Topic
Arte
Subtopic
Biografías de artistas

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Foreword
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Introduction: Preliminary Thoughts on Biography and Meaning
  7. CHAPTER 1: "The Edge of Nowhere": Emily Carr and the Limits of Autobiography
  8. CHAPTER 2: The Enigma of Biography
  9. CHAPTER 3: A Mirror to Culture: Moments in the Development of the Genre
  10. CHAPTER 4: Life and Text: There Once Was an Artist Named Emily Carr
  11. CHAPTER 5: Deep Nature: Survival in a Constructed World
  12. After Life
  13. APPENDIX A: A Brief Chronology of Emily Carr's Life and Writing
  14. APPENDIX B: Three Responses to Carr’s Biographical Image
  15. Notes
  16. References and Sources Consulted
  17. Index