Natalie Edwards is an assistant professor of French at Wagner College and coeditor of This Self Which Is Not One:¿Women¿s Life Writing in French. Amy L. Hubbell is an associate professor of French at Kansas State University, lecturer in French at the University of Queensland, and the author of ¿ la recherche d¿un emploi: Business French in a Communicative Context. Ann Miller is a university fellow at the University of Leicester and the author of Reading Bande Dessin¿ Critical Approaches to French-Language Comic Strip.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Textual and Visual Selves

      Natalie Edwards, Amy L. Hubbell, and Ann Miller

1. Beyond Autobiography

      Véronique Montémont

2. Chronicles of Intimacy: Photography in Autobiographical Projects

      Shirley Jordan

3. The Absent Body: Photography and Autobiography in Hélène Cixous's Photos de racines and Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie's L'Usage de la photo

      Natalie Edwards

4. The Photobiographical Today: Signs of an Identity Crisis?

      Floriane Place-Verghnes

5. Reclaiming the Void: The Cinematographic Aesthetic of Marguerite Duras's Autobiographical Novels

      Erica L. Johnson

6. Illustration Revisited: Phototextual Exchange and Resistance in Sophie Calle's Suite vénitienne

      Johnnie Gratton

7. Viewing the Past through a "Nostalgeric" Lens: Pied-Noir Photodocumentaries

      Amy L. Hubbell

8. Georges Perec, Memory, and Photography

      Peter Wagstaff

9. The Self-Portrait in French Cinema: Reflections on Theory and on Agnès Varda's Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse

      Agnès Calatayud

10. Autobiography in Bande Dessinée

      Ann Miller

Contributors

Index

Natalie Edwards is an assistant professor of French at Wagner College and coeditor of This Self Which Is Not One: Women's Life Writing in French. Amy L. Hubbell is an associate professor of French at Kansas State University, lecturer in French at the University of Queensland, and the author of À la recherche d'un emploi: Business French in a Communicative Context. Ann Miller is a university fellow at the University of Leicester and the author of Reading Bande Dessinée: Critical Approaches to French-Language Comic Strip.