Authorizing Fictions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8941033 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Holly Grout (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 295-322 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00161071-7300083 |
| OpenAlex | W2969271276 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article examines how one of the most popular French celebrities of the twentieth century, Mistinguett (née Jeanne Florentine Bourgeois), used the medium of memoir to narrate a self and to produce her posterity. Located at the intersection of commerce and culture, celebrity memoir provides public figures a commodified textual stage for enacting, performing, and disseminating their brand. But to dismiss celebrity memoir as mere publicity, as simply another form of self-promotion and brand management, undermines its broader cultural value. As Mistinguett's memoir, Toute ma vie (1954), demonstrates, celebrity memoirs offer much more than a stylized recounting and commercial packaging of a life; they illuminate the production of celebrity itself. Ultimately, by exploring how Mistinguett negotiated the competing personas through which she produced her performative self, this article argues that celebrity memoir divulges the complex and concerted ego performances through which modern celebrity is fashioned. Cet article examine comment Mistinguett (née Jeanne Florentine Bourgeois), une des célébrités françaises les plus populaires du vingtième siècle, a utilisé ses mémoires pour narrer un moi et fabriquer sa postérité. Situés au carrefour du commerce et de la culture, les mémoires de célébrités fournissent aux personnages publics une occasion textuelle pour la représentation, l'interprétation et la diffusion de leur marque. Mais les mémoires de célébrités ne sont pas que du marketing. Comme en témoigne Toute ma vie (1954) de Mistinguett, les mémoires de célébrités offrent bien plus qu'un emballage commercial d'une vie ; ils illuminent la production de la célébrité elle-même. En explorant comment Mistinguett a négocié les personnages concurrents qui constituaient son moi, cet article soutient que les mémoires de célébrités révèlent le rôle complexe des performances de soi dans la fabrication de la célébrité moderne
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Commodification · Humanities · Memoir · Performative utterance · Sociology · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
Reading autobiography
Stardom in Postwar France
Chanteuse in the City
Constructing Charisma
The Force of Beauty
Regarding History
Am I Pretty or Ugly? Girls and the Market for Self-Esteem
Song and Society in Turn-of-the-Century France
The Invention of Celebrity, 1750–1850
Approaching celebrity studies
Persona as method
History, Historians, and Autobiography
The Evidence of Experience
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |