From Split to Screened Selves : French and Francophone Autobiography in the Third Person / Rachel Gabara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gabara, Rachel, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Split Selves: French Autobiography in the First, Second, and Third Persons

Part II. Autobiography in Images: From Photography to Film

Part III. Francophone Autobiography: Selves and Others, Words and Images

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-2577-X

OCLC:

1294425599