Limelight - by Katja Lee (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Limelight: Canadian Women and the Rise of Celebrity Autobiography examines the celebrity autobiography and how it has changed in form, function, and content over the last 115 years. Focusing on the autobiographies of famous Canadian women, it charts a history of fame in English Canada and examines the influence of gender and nation in the experience and representation of fame in an autobiography.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Using the memoirs of famous Canadian women like L.M. Montgomery, Nellie McClung, the Dionne Quintuplets, Margaret Trudeau, and Shania Twain, <i>Limelight </i>traces the rise of celebrity autobiography in Canada and the role gender has played in the rise to fame and in writing about that experience.</b></p> <p>Arguing that the celebrity autobiography is always negotiating historically specific conditions, Katja Lee charts a history of celebrity in English Canada and the conditions that shape the way women access and experience fame. These contexts shed light on the stories women tell about their lives and the kinds of public images they cultivate in their autobiographies. As strategies of self-representation change and the pressure to represent the private life escalates, the celebrity autobiography undergoes three distinct shifts in form, function, and content during the period examined in this study.</p> <p><i>Limelight: Canadian Women and the Rise of Celebrity Autobiography</i> is the first book to explore the history and development of the celebrity autobiography and offers compelling evidence of the critical role of gender and nation in the way fame is experienced and represented.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"<i>Limelight</i> 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 citizenship. <i>Limelight</i> 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)<br>
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