Description
Book SynopsisOffers a study of 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. This work investigates autobiography across media, from print to photography and film, and across the colonial encounter.
Trade Review"Through her close readings of textual and cinematic autobiographies and through her judicious use of theoretical concepts, Gabara makes a persuasive case for diversity in autobiography, for broadening the characteristics which define life writing and filmic
recits de soi." --
Biography"Rachel Gabara's work is an informative contribution to the scholarship that already exists on the problems associated with the autobiographical genre as it introduces media that have not yet been fully explored . . . Gabara's work is an interesting and original look at autobiography that is pertinent for scholars in diverse disciplines." -- Randi L. Polk *
French Review *
"Relying on excellent scholarship, Rachel Gabara's work has brought together both familiar and new material to bear on the vexed question of autobiography. An outstanding contribution to literary, cultural, and film studies,
From Split to Screened Selves will have a real impact on a number of fields: postcolonial studies, comparative literature, French and Francophone studies, film studies, and autobiographical studies." -- Panivong Norindr * University of Southern California *
"A skillful examination . . . This interesting, carefully researched study will be very useful." --
CHOICE"Rachel Gabara's monograph is a welcome, and timely, intervention in the field of autobiographical studies . . . It is to be hoped that her truly interdisciplinary approach . . . will influence research in post-colonial, comparative literature and francophone studies. " -- Kate Marsh *
international Journal of Francophone Studies *
Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgements iii Introduction iii @toc1:Part I: Split Selves: French Autobiography in the First, Second, and Third Persons @toc2:Chapter 1: Autobiography of Himself: Roland Barthes By Roland Barthes By Roland Barthes 0 Chapter 2: Internal Conversation: Nathalie Sarraute's Childhood 00 @toc1:Part II: Autobiography in Images: From Photography to Film @toc2:Chapter 3: Seeing Autobiography: From Camera Lucida to the Cinema 00 Chapter 4: Screening Autobiography: Cyril Collard's Savage Nights 131165 @toc1:Part III: Francophone Autobiography: Selves and Others, Words and Images @toc2:Chapter 5: (Un)Veiling Herself?: Assia Djebar in Love, An Algerian Cavalcade 00 Chapter 6: AutoBiographical Third Cinema: David Achkar's Allah Tantou and Raoul Peck's Lumumba: Death of the Prophet 00 Conclusion 00 Notes Index
