FREN 40.06 Selfies: autobiographie, autoportrair, autofiction

A study of three forms of writing about the self and their generic distinctions. Autobiography, a practice of self-understanding deals with the construction of one’s life story across time; self-portraiture does not attempt to rejoin the past by the construction of a self that is temporally constructed. The autoportraitist presents a self apprehended in the present of writing through a montage of disparate images. Autofiction, on the other hand,  deals with a form of fictionalized autobiography that uses fiction in the service of the search for self.  Subjects to be examined include: rhetoric, politics, history, and gender.  Texts: Rousseau, Chateaubriand, Sartre, Beauvoir (autobiographies,); Montaigne, Sevigne, Barthes (autoportraits);  Colette, Modiano, Ernaux (autofictions).

Instructor

Kritzman

Prerequisite

A course in the French 10 sequence or permission of the instructor

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:LIT; WCult:W

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