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WomenActivistsandCivilRightsLeadersinAuto/BiographicalLiteratureandFilmsDelphineLetort·BenaoudaLebdaiEditorsWomenActivistsandCivilRightsLeadersinAuto/BiographicalLiteratureandFilmsEditorsDelphineLetortLeMansUniversityLeMans,FranceBenaoudaLebdaiLeMansUniversityLeMans,FranceISBN978-3-319-77080-2ISBN978-3-319-77081-9(eBook)https://doi.
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Covercredit:johnwoodcockPrintedonacid-freepaperThisPalgraveMacmillanimprintispublishedbytheregisteredcompanySpringerInternationalPublishingAGpartofSpringerNatureTheregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,SwitzerlandvContentsIntroduction1DelphineLetortandBenaoudaLebdaiPartITheLivesofWomenActivistsWinnieMadikizelaMandela:TheConstructionofaSouthAfricanPoliticalIcon13BenaoudaLebdai"Revoluting"orWritingAhdafSoueifandthe2011EgyptianRevolution33JacquelineJondotAutobiographyofanActivist:SophonisbaBreckinridge,"ChampionoftheChampionless"45AnyaJabourLeanInandTellMea(True)Story:SherylSandberg'sRevisionofFeministHistory65TanyaAnnKennedyviContentsPartIIBlackHistoryinAuto/biographicalTextsTheManyLivesofIdaB.
Wells:Autobiography,HistoricalBiography,andDocumentary91DelphineLetortMalcolmX:FromtheAutobiographytoSpikeLee'sFilm,TwoComplementaryPerspectivesontheManandtheMilitantBlackLeader109DominiqueDuboisMichelleObama:TheVoiceandEmbodimentof(African)AmericanHistory123Pierre-MarieLoizeauGhostWritingandFilmingBiographyinTwelve/12YearsaSlave139SylvieCharronPartIIIBiographicalFilmsandHistoryBiographicalMotionPicturesandtheResuscitationof"RealLives"153TanaTuhkunen"NegroGirl(meager)":BlackWomen'sIn/VisibilityinContemporaryFilmsAboutSlavery171LisaBotshonandMelindaPlastasQueeringtheBiopicMilk(2008)andtheBiographicReal189IsabelleVanPeteghem-TréardInSearchofPurcell'sLegacy:TonyPalmer'sEngland,MyEngland(1995)207NicoleCloarecContentsviiPartIVPostfaceDoesOneNeedtoBeaMantoBeaGreatMan223NathaliePrinceIndex227ixNotesonContributorsLisaBotshonisProfessorofEnglishandWomen'sandGenderStudiesattheUniversityofMaineatAugusta.
Herpublicationshavefocusedonwomenwriters,popularculture,andthemiddlebrow.
Hercurrentpro-jectexploreswomen'sback-to-the-landmemoirsfromtheinterwarera.
SylvieCharronisProfessorEmeritaofFrenchattheUniversityofMaineatFarmington.
Shehasalongstandinginterestinliteraryvoicescallingforsocialchangeandexpressingthehumanconditionatthemar-ginsofsociety.
Inrecentyears,shefocusedonregionalandimmigrantfrancophoneliterature.
ShedidextensiveresearchonGeorgeSandandtranslatedTheMarquiseandPaulinewithSueHuseman.
Shealsotrans-latedandanalyzedLesraisinsdelagalèrebyTaharBenJelloun(tobepublished)andCanuckbyCamilleLessard-Bissonnette,whichdepictsthelifeofFrancoAmericansinthefactoriesofLewiston/Lowellattheturnofthe20thcentury(editedbyRheaCté-Robbins).
NicoleCloarecisaSeniorLecturerinEnglishatRennes1University.
SheistheauthorofadoctoralthesisonPeterGreenaway'sfilmsandanumberofarticlesonBritishandEnglish-speakingcinema.
Shehaseditedtwocollectivevolumesonlettersandtheinsertionofwrittenmaterialinfilmsandrecentlyco-editedSocialClassonBritishandAmericanScreens:EssaysonCinemaandTelevision(2016).
Herlatestresearchfocusesonquestionsoftransmediality,adaptation,anddocumentary.
xNotesonContributorsDominiqueDuboisiscurrentlyaProfessorofEnglishLiteratureatAngersUniversity.
HisresearchtopicispostcolonialliteratureandmoreparticularlyWilsonHarris.
HewrotetwodissertationsonWilsonHarris,thefirststudiedthethemeofthequestintheTheGuyanaQuartetandthesecondonthecreativeprocessatworkinHarris'novels.
Itwaspub-lishedbythePressesUniversitairesduSeptentrionin1998underthetitleTranscendancedansl'OeuvredeWilsonHarris.
AfterhisPhD,hecontinuedhisresearchonHarrisandthisledtothepublicationofabout10papersonvariousaspectsofhiswork.
Hehasalsopublishedexten-sivelyonvariouspostcolonialwriters,includingV.
S.
Naipaul,GeorgeLamming,OliveSenior,MichaelAnthony,EarlLovelace,MargaretAtwood,andLawrenceScott.
Hehasalsowrittenonshort-storywriterssuchasRaymondCarverandJohnMcGahern.
AnyaJabourisRegentsProfessorofHistoryattheUniversityofMontana,whereshehastaughtU.
S.
women'shistoryandthehistoryoftheAmericanSouthsinceearningherPh.
D.
fromRiceUniversityin1995.
HerpreviousbooksincludeMarriageintheEarlyRepublic:ElizabethandWilliamWirtandtheCompanionIdeal(JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress,1998);Scarlett'sSisters:YoungWomenintheOldSouth(UniversityofNorthCarolinaPress,2007);andTopsy-Turvy:HowtheCivilWarturnedtheWorldUpsideDownforSouthernChildren(IvanR.
Dee,2010).
HerbiographyofBreckinridge,SophonisbaBreckinridgeandWomen'sActivisminModernAmerica,isforthcomingfromtheUniversityofIllinoisPress.
JacquelineJondotisaProfessoratToulouse-Jean-JaurèsUniversity(France)andaDoctorinEnglishLiterature.
Shewroteathird-cyclethe-sisonOrlandobyVirginiaWolfandaPhDthesis(Doctoratd'état)onMiddleEasternArabauthorswhowriteintheEnglishlanguage;shehaswrittenarticlesonAhdafSoueif,EdwardAtiyah,CarlGibeily,YasminZahran,JamalMahjoub,FadiaFaqir,SusanAbulhawa…aswellasonBritishwomenwriters(VirginiaWoolf,PenelopeLively,MaryShelley).
ShealsotranslatedOutremerbyNabilSaleh.
HerphotosofCairenemashrabiyyasandEgyptianRevolutiongraffitihavebeenexhibited.
ShecoordinatedtoanissueofHorizonsMaghrébinsontheRevolutioninEgypt,includingherphotosofstreetgraffiti.
TanyaAnnKennedyisanAssociateProfessorattheUniversityofMaine-Farmington.
HerresearchandteachinginterestsincludemediaNotesonContributorsxiandnewmediastudies,feministtheory,raceandethnicity,genderandglobalization,andtwentieth-centuryandcontemporaryUSliteratureandculture.
HerbookHistoricizingPost-Discourses:PostfeminismandPostracisminU.
S.
CultureisforthcomingfromSUNYPressinspring2017.
BenaoudaLebdaiisaspecialistinColonialandPostcolonialLiteraturewritteninEnglishandFrench.
HeobtainedaPhDin1987attheUniversityofEssex,UK,incomparativeliteratureandhasalsoaFrenchdoctorateontheGhanaiannovelistAyiKweiArmah.
HehaspublishedextensivelyonAfricanwriterssuchasChinuaAchebe,PeterAbrahams,J.
M.
Coetzee,NadineGordimer,ZoWicomb,WinnieMandela,NgugiWaThiong'O,AyiKweiArmah,RachidBoudjedra,AssiaDjebar,AlbertCamus,andFrantzFanon.
Hepublishedontransatlanticslavetradenarratives.
Hiscriticalstudiesdealwiththecomplexrelationsbetweenliteratureandhistory,gender,identity,migration,basinghisanalysisonpostcolonialtheory,EdwardSaid,FrantzFanon,HomiBhabha,GayatriSpivakandonnarratology,Rimmon-KenanandGérardGenette.
Heorganizednumerousinternationalconferencesoncolonialandpost-colonialliteratureinFrance,Algeria,andtheUSA.
HeiscurrentlyProfessoratLeMansUniversity,France.
HealsotaughtComparativeAfricanLiteratureatAlgiersUniversity(Algeria)andAngersUniversity(France).
HislatestpublicationisAutobiographyasaWritingStrategyinPostcolonialLiterature(CambridgeScholarsPublishing,2015).
DelphineLetortisaProfessorinAmericanStudiesatLeMansUniversity,wheresheteachesAmericancivilizationandfilmstudies.
ShehaspublishedDufilmnoiraunéo-noir:mythesetstéréotypesdel'Amérique1941–2008(Paris:L'Harmattan,2010)andTheSpikeLeeBrand:AStudyofDocumentaryFilmmaking(SUNY,2015).
Shehaswrittennumerousarticlesaboutfilmadaptations,documentaryfilmmaking,andAfricanAmericancinemainjournalsinFrance(RevueLISA/LISAe-journal,In-Media,Transatlantica,etc.
)andabroad(Screen,Alphaville,Media,WarandConflict,etc.
).
Shehasco-editedseveraljournalissues(DocumentaryFilmmakingPractices:FromPropagandatoDissent;ExploringWarMemoriesinAmericanDocumentaries)andbooks(L'Adaptationcinéma-tographique:premièrespages,premiersplans,2014;LaCulturedel'en-gagementàl'écran,2015;SocialClassonBritishandAmericanScreens:EssaysonCinemaandTelevision,2016;Auto/biographieshistoriquesdansxiiNotesonContributorslesarts,2017),athematicissuefortheCinémActionseries(Panoramamondialdufilmnoir,2014).
SheservesontheadvisoryeditorialboardofBlackCamera(Bloomington,Indiana)andisthechiefeditorofRevueLisa/Lisae-journal(https://lisa.
revues.
org/159),ISSN:1762-6153,PressesUniversitairesdeRennes(France).
Pierre-MarieLoizeauisanAssociateProfessorofEnglishattheUniversityofAngers,France.
HeearnedhisPhDinAmericanCivilizationfromtheUniversityofAngersin2000withadissertationentitled"AmericanFirstLadies:Their(Ir)resistibleAscent.
"HisresearchfocusesonWhiteHousehistory,theUSpresidency,andtheroleandpowerofFirstLadies.
HeisamemberoftheAFEA(AssociationFranaised'tudesAméricaines)andtheSAES(SociétédesAnglicistesdel'EnseignementSupérieur).
HeistheauthorofFirstLadies:DelaTraditionàlaModernité(Paris:Ellipses,2012),MartinVanBuren:TheLittleMagician(Hauppauge,NewYork:NovaHistoryPublishers,2009),NancyReaganinPerspective(Hauppauge,NewYork:NovaHistoryPublishers,2005).
MelindaPlastasteachesWomenandGenderStudiesatBatesCollege.
Herinterestsincluderaceandsocialmovements,genderandmilitari-zation,andgenderandtobaccocapitalism.
HerbookABandofNobleWomen:RacePoliticsintheWomen'sPeaceMovementwaspublishedin2011bySyracuseUniversityPress.
NathaliePrinceisaProfessorofComparativeLiteratureandFrenchLiteratureatLeMansUniversity.
SheistheDirectorofthe3L.
AMResearchCenter(LeLaboratoireLangues,Littératures,Linguistiquedesuniversitésd'AngersetduMans).
ShehaspublishedLaLittératuredejeunesse:Pourunethéorielittéraire(ArmandColin,collectionU,2nded.
,2015),LaLittératurefantastique(ArmandColin,collection128,2015),andPetitMuséedesHorreurs:Nouvellesfantastiques,cruellesetmacabres(RobertLaffont,collectionBouquins,2nded.
,2013).
TanaTuhkunenisaProfessorofAmericanStudiesattheUniversityofAngers.
HerpublishedworkincludesherPhDthesisonSylviaPlath'spoetryandprose,SylviaPlath:Uneécritureembryonnaire(2002),acoeditedstudyofStanleyKubrick'sfilmadaptationofVladimirNabokov'sLolita(2009),andnumerousarticlesonNorthAmericanLiteratureandCinema.
HermostrecentbookDemainseraunautrejour:LeSudetseshéronesàl'écran(TomorrowIsAnotherDay:TheNotesonContributorsxiiiSouthandItsHeroinesonScreen,2013)exploresrepresentationsoftheAmericanSouthonscreensincethebeginningoffilmhistory.
IsabelleVanPeteghem-TréardteachesinClassesPréparatoiresLittérairesandCine-SupinNantesandisaspecialistinfiguresofsubli-mationinAmericancinemaandliterature.
ShehaspublishedabookonAliceWalkerandhaswrittennumerousarticlesonindependentcinema(GusVanSant,SofiaCoppola,DebraGranik).
xvListofFiguresWinnieMadikizelaMandela:TheConstructionofaSouthAfricanPoliticalIconFig.
1NelsonandWinnieMandelametintheearly1960sandagreedtoamarriagebasedona"politicalpact".
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1SherylSandbergembodiesthephilosophyofLeanIn(2013).
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2LillyLedbetterexhibitsherworking-classbackground.
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3UniteHereLocal26,aunionofemployeesattheHiltonDoubleTreeSuiteshotelinBostoncreatedleafletstoappealforSandberg'ssupport.
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1SpikeLeefocusesonMalcolmX'spublicfigureandpoliticalmessage.
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1MichelleObamaonTheEllenDeGeneresShow,an"ordinary"womanwithan"extraordinary"destiny.
NBC/Photofest126xviListofFiguresGhostWritingandFilmingBiographyinTwelve/12YearsaSlaveFig.
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1Belle(GuguMbatha-Raw)appearsonequalfootingwithherhalf-cousin(SarahGadon).
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1GusVanSant'scelebratoryportraitofpioneeringgayactivistHarveyMilkSeanPennshowshimearninghisplaceinhistory.
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