Textual and Visual Selves : Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography.
Title:
Textual and Visual Selves : Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography.
Author:
Edwards, Natalie.
ISBN:
9780803237995
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (286 pages)
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 vénitienne -- 7. 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.
Abstract:
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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