From split to screened selves : French and Francophone autobiography in the third person / Rachel Gabara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gabara, Rachel

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--20th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

Autobiography in literature.

Biographical films--History and criticism.

Biographical films.

Physical Description:

xvi, 213 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

This book is a study of recent autobiographies by French and Francophone African writers and filmmakers, all of whom reject simple first-person narration and experiment with narrative voice and form to represent fragmented subjectivity. Gabara investigates autobiography across media, from print to photography and film, as well as across the colonial encounter, from France to Francophone North and West Africa. Reading works by Roland Barthes, Nathalie Sarraute, Assia Djebar, Cyril Collard, David Achkar, and Raoul Peck, she argues that autobiographical film and African autobiography, subgenres that have until now been overlooked or dismissed by critics, offer new and important possibilities for self-representation in the twenty-first century. Not only do these new forms of autobiography deserve our attention, but any study of contemporary autobiography is incomplete without them.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-210) and index.

ISBN:

0804753563

OCLC:

63705851

Publisher Number:

9780804753562