Table of Contents for From Split to Screened Selves

From Split to Screened Selves
French and Francophone Autobiography in the Third Person
Rachel Gabara

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Split Selves: French Autobiography in the First, Second, and Third Persons

1.Autobiography of Himself: Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes

2.Internal Conversation: Nathalie Sarraute's Childhood

Part II: Autobiography in Images: From Photography to Film

3.Seeing Autobiography: From Camera Lucida to the Cinema

4.Screening Autobiography: Cyril Collard's Savage Nights

Part III: Francophone Autobiography: Selves and Others, Words and Images

5.(Un)Veiling Herself? Assia Djebar in Love, an Algerian Cavalcade

6.AutoBiographical Third Cinema: David Achkar's Allah Tantou and Raoul Peck's Lumumba: Death of the Prophet

Conclusion

Notes

Index

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