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Textual & visual selves : photography, film, and comic art in French autobiography / edited by Natalie Edwards, Amy L. Hubbell, and Ann Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French prose literature--History and criticism.
- French prose literature.
- Authors, French--Biography--History and criticism.
- Authors, French.
- Art in literature.
- Autobiography--Authorship.
- Autobiography.
- Visual perception in literature.
- Literature and photography--France.
- Literature and photography.
- Self in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (286 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Textual and visual selves
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln [Neb.] : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Autobiography in France has taken a decidedly visual turn in recent years: photographs, shown or withheld, become evidence of what was, might have been, or cannot be said; photographers, filmmakers, and cartoonists undertake projects that explore issues of identity. Textual and Visual Selves investigates, from a variety of theoretical perspectives, the ways in which the textual and the visual combine in certain French works to reconfigure ideas-and images-of self-representation.Surprisingly, what these accounts reveal is that photography or film does not necessarily serve to shore up the refer
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Textual and Visual Selves; 1. Beyond Autobiography; 2. Chronicles of Intimacy: Photography in Autobiographical Projects; 3. The Absent Body: Photography and Autobiography in Hélène Cixous's Photos de racines and Annie Ernaux andMarc Marie's L'Usage de la photo; 4. The Photobiographical Today: Signs of an Identity Crisis?; 5. Reclaiming the Void: The Cinematographic Aesthetic of Marguerite Duras's Autobiographical Novels
- 6. Illustration Revisited: Phototextual Exchange and Resistance in Sophie Calle's Suite vénitienne7. Viewing the Past through a "Nostalgeric" Len s: Pied-Noir Photodocumentaries; 8. Georges Perec, Memory, and Photography; 9. The Self-Portrait in French Cinema: Reflections on Theory and on Agnès Varda'sLes Glaneurs et la glaneuse; 10. Autobiography in Bande Dessinée; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613592996
- 9781280497766
- 1280497769
- 9780803237995
- 0803237995
- OCLC:
- 793511410
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