Border aesthetics: the photograph as fictionalized document in Norma Cantu's Canicula, Art Spiegelman's Maus, and Rea Tajiri's History and Memory
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu14067198502021-08-03T06:26:29Z Border aesthetics: the photograph as fictionalized document in Norma Cantu's Canicula, Art Spiegelman's Maus, and Rea Tajiri's History and Memory Elliott, Maren Nelson Comparative In this paper I will analyze how three American autobiographers negotiate the contradiction between photographic fact and autobiographical fiction. In Norma Elia Cantu’s Canicula, in Art Spiegelman’s MAUS, and in Rea Tajiri’s History and Memory photographs are used to document past lives. While they present the photographs as factual evidence of the past, each crafts an aesthetic to emphasize the fictional, constructed nature of their photographs: Cantu develops an aesthetic of the border, Spiegelman an aesthetic of postmemory, and Tajiri an aesthetic of absence to emphasize the subjective world of emotions and fantasies as an important part of memory, autobiography, and photography. All three of these works operate with a complex understanding that their family photos are fictionalized yet also retain their documentary force. 2003 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1406719850 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1406719850 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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Border aesthetics: the photograph as fictionalized document in Norma Cantu's Canicula, Art Spiegelman's Maus, and Rea Tajiri's History and Memory |
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Border aesthetics: the photograph as fictionalized document in Norma Cantu's Canicula, Art Spiegelman's Maus, and Rea Tajiri's History and Memory |
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border aesthetics: the photograph as fictionalized document in norma cantu's canicula, art spiegelman's maus, and rea tajiri's history and memory |
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