From Split to Screened Selves
French and Francophone Autobiography in the Third Person
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9343416 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rachel Gabara (0000-0001-8833-0239, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Publication date | 2006-10-11 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | From Split to Screened Selves (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9781503625778 |
| OpenAlex | W4206903819 |
| ISBN | 9781503625778 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
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
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Biography · Colonialism · French · Humanities · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Politics · Reading (process · Representation (politics · Subjectivity · African history and culture studies · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · History · North African History and Literature · Philosophy
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Voices From Beyond Paper
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Raoul Peck'sLumumbaandLumumba
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,47 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |