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Rachel Gabara - From Split to Screened Selves: French and Francophone Autobiography in the Third Person - 9780804753562 - V9780804753562
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From Split to Screened Selves: French and Francophone Autobiography in the Third Person

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Description for From Split to Screened Selves: French and Francophone Autobiography in the Third Person Hardback. Offers 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. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804753562
SKU
V9780804753562
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Rachel Gabara
Rachel Gabara is Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia.

Reviews for From Split to Screened Selves: French and Francophone Autobiography in the Third Person
"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 ... Read more

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