Offers a study of 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. This work investigates autobiography across media, from print to photography and film, and across the colonial encounter.
"Relying on excellent scholarship, Rachel Gabara's work has brought together both familiar and new material to bear on the vexed question of autobiography. An outstanding contribution to literary, cultural, and film studies, From Split to Screened Selves will have a real impact on a number of fields: postcolonial studies, comparative literature, French and Francophone studies, film studies, and autobiographical studies."--Panivong Norindr, University of Southern California
"Rachel Gabara's monograph is a welcome, and timely, intervention in the field of autobiographical studies . . . It is to be hoped that her truly interdisciplinary approach . . . will influence research in post-colonial, comparative literature and francophone studies. "
