Photobiography

Why do photographs interest writers, especially autobiographical writers? Ever since their invention, photographs have featured as metaphors, as absent inspirations, and latterly as actual objects in written texts. In autobiographical texts, their presence has raised particularly acute questions about the rivalry between these two media, their relationship to the real, and the nature of the constructed self. In this timely study, based on the most recent developments in the fields of photography theory, self-writing and photo-biography, Akane Kawakami offers an intriguing narrative which runs from texts containing metaphorical photographs through ekphrastic works to phototexts. Her choice of Marcel Proust, Hervé Guibert, Annie Ernaux and Gérard Macé provides unusual readings of works seldom considered in this context, and teases out surprising similarities between unexpected conjunctions.

שנה

2020

שפה

English

הוצאה

Taylor & Francis Group

מהדורות

6

עמודים

204

ISBN

9780367601331

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata