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Textual and Visual Selves

Textual and Visual Selves : Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography.

・ISBN 978-0-8032-3631-8 paper US$ 25.00

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著者・編者Edwards, Natalie / Hubbell, Amy L. / Miller, Ann (eds.),
出版社(University of Nebraska Press, US)
出版年月2011
ページ数288 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<L25-38765>

解説

Autobiography in France has taken a decidedly visual turn in recent years: photographs, shown or withheld, become evidence of what was, might have been, or cannot be said; photographers, filmmakers, and cartoonists undertake projects that explore issues of identity. Textual and Visual Selves investigates, from a variety of theoretical perspectives, the ways in which the textual and the visual combine in certain French works to reconfigure ideas-and images-of self-representation.
Surprisingly, what these accounts reveal is that photography or film does not necessarily serve to shore up the referentiality of the autobiographical account: on the contrary, the inclusion of visual material can even increase indeterminacy and ambiguity. Far from offering documentary evidence of an extratextual self coincident with the "I" of the text, these images testify only to absence, loss, evasiveness, and the desire to avoid objectification. However, where Roland Barthes famously saw the photograph as a prefiguration of death, in this volume we see how the textual strategies deployed by these writers and artists result in work that is ultimately life-affirming.