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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: From Split to Screened Selves
• Subtitle: French and Francophone Autobiography in the Third Person
• Author: Rachel Gabara
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 232
• EAN: 9780804753562
• ISBN: 0804753563
• ID: 04718075
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 440 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. October 2006

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