Staging Sermon: performing autobiographical memory through “The Waste Land”

Waterman, Sally (2023) Staging Sermon: performing autobiographical memory through “The Waste Land”. In: Handbook of research on the relationship between autobiographical memory and photography. IGI Global, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA, pp. 59-81. ISBN 1668453371

Creators:
Waterman, Sally
Description/Abstract:

This chapter provides a self-reflexive evaluation of the Sermon photographs from Waste Land (2005-2010), that was produced by the author for her practice-based PhD. T.S. Eliot's poem “The Waste Land” (1922) was used to examine her adaptation methodologies and self-representational strategies. Waterman visually translates her own experience of parental divorce through a close analysis of the text and literary criticism (Brooker and Bentley, Ellman, Miller, Parsons), acknowledging her biographical connections to Eliot's marriage to Vivienne Haigh Wood, to produce cathartic re-enactments, informed by phototherapy (Martin, Spence), memory and trauma studies (Barthes, Freud, Kaplan), feminine metaphors (Gilbert and Gubar, Horner and Zlosnik), and photographic self-portraiture (Chadwick, Lingwood). By interweaving these cross-disciplinary strands and reflecting on the actual process of making each photograph through a unique auto-criticism, Waterman demonstrates how her autobiographical literary interpretations offer a means of restaging memory through the creation of photographic narratives.

Item Type:
Book Section
Date:
February 2023
Identification Number:
10.4018/978-1-6684-5337-7.ch003
Schools:
School of Fine Art, Crafts & Photography
School of Fashion & Textiles
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Depositing User:
Amy Robinson
Date Deposited:
14 Nov 2023 10:33
Last Modified:
15 Nov 2023 15:34
URI:
https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/6205

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