Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography - Softcover

 
9780803236318: Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography
Softcover
ISBN 10: 080323631X ISBN 13: 9780803236318
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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 referentiality of the autobiographical account: on the contrary, the inclusion of visual material can even increase indeterminacy and ambiguity. Far from offering documentary evidence of an extratextual self coincident with the &;I&; of the text, these images testify only to absence, loss, evasiveness, and the desire to avoid objectification. However, where Roland Barthes famously saw the photograph as a prefiguration of death, in this volume we see how the textual strategies deployed by these writers and artists result in work that is ultimately life-affirming.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Natalie Edwards is an assistant professor of French at Wagner College and coeditor of This Self Which Is Not One: Women&;s Life Writing in French. Amy L. Hubbell is an associate professor of French at Kansas State University, lecturer in French at the University of Queensland, and the author of À la recherche d&;un emploi: Business French in a Communicative Context. Ann Miller is a university fellow at the University of Leicester and the author of Reading Bande Dessinée: Critical Approaches to French-Language Comic Strip.

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Verlag
University of Nebraska Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
080323631X
ISBN 13 
9780803236318
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
Herausgeber
Edwards Natalie, Hubbell Amy L., Miller Ann
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