ABSTRACT

Journeys Exposed: Women's Writing, Photography, and Mobility examines contemporary literature written by women that are all in different ways related to Italy. It argues that photography provides women with a means to expose aspects of their nomadic self and of the others’ mobile lives within and beyond the writing process. By resorting to the visual, women individualistically respond to forms of hegemonic power, fragmentation, displacement, loss and marginality, and make these experiences key to their creative production.

chapter |24 pages

Introduction

Narrating, Exposing and Moving

part I|52 pages

Performances

chapter 2|26 pages

Stranger at Home

Ornela Vorpsi’s Visual Writing of Endurance

part II|66 pages

Intersections: Itinerancies with a Camera

chapter 3|30 pages

Hidden Lights

Monika Bulaj’s Empathic Photo-Reportage of Afghanistan

part III|68 pages

Tapestries

chapter 5|24 pages

Re-writing

Narrations of Family Displacement

chapter 6|36 pages

Reimaging

Threads, Laces and Stitches

chapter |6 pages

Conclusion

Multiple Exposures