Limelight by Katja Lee
Examines the memoirs of famous Canadian women, such as L.M. Montgomery, Nellie McClung, the Dionne Quintuplets, Margaret Trudeau, and Shania Twain, to trace the rise of celebrity autobiography in Canada and the role gender has played in the rise to fame and in writing about that experience.-
Love and War in London
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What the Oceans Remember
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Unheard of
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Working in Women's Archives
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Lebano-Pathography
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Unequivocal Magic
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Autoethnography in the 21st Century, Volume II
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Silence and Seizure
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Autoethnography in the 21st Century, Volume I
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Memoirs from Away
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(In)Dependent Selves
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Life Writing After Empire
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Writing Lives Together
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Leaving Fundamentalism
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Bearing Witness
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Broad Is the Way
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Autofiction, Emotions, and Humour
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Repossessing the World
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The Limits of Life Writing
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Career Construction Theory and Life Writing
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Body Language
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Women and Ageing
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We All Giggled
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Burdens of Proof
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The Selfless Ego
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Wounded Scholar, Healing Witness
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Human/Animal
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Chasing the Comet
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Watermelon Syrup
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Canadian Graphic
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Street Angel
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Travels and Identities
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Not the Whole Story
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Seven Eggs Today
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Life Writing and Celebrity
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Motherlode
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Borrowed Tongues
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Dead Woman Pickney
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Essays in Life Writing
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Erasing Frankenstein
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Wait Time
"Limelight charts the evolution of Canadian culture over a century and, in an engaging and accessible style, examines the way Canadian celebrities operate in a global celebrityscape--the ways in which the national and the global interact--with important implications for citizenshipLimelight is informative, entertaining, thought-provoking, and authoritative." --Gillian Roberts, University of Nottingham, editor of Reading between the Borderlines (2018) and Parallel Encounters (WLU Press, 2013) -- Gillian Roberts
Katja Lee has recently completed a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia and now teaches at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Western Australia. She has published essays on celebrity, public identity performance, and life writing. Her most recent work has been published in Celebrity Studies, Life Writing, and The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. With Lorraine York, she co-edited Celebrity Cultures in Canada.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781771124294 |
| ISBN 10 | 1771124296 |
| Title | Limelight |
| Author | Katja Lee |
| Series | Life Writing |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
| Year published | 2020-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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