CARVALHAO BUESCU, Helena et Joao FERREIRA DUARTE, Stories and Portraits of the Self, Amsterdam / New York, Rodopi (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft), 2007, 332 p.
ISBN 978-90-420-2328-4
RÉSUMÉ
In contemporary societies privatization has long ceased to be just an economic concept; rather, it must increasingly be made to refer to the ongoing shrinking of the public space under the impact of the representation of individual lives and images, which cuts across all discourses, genres and media to become one of the primary means of production of culture. This volume is intended to cover such an historical, social and intellectual ground, where self-representation comes to the fore. Targeting mostly an academic readership but certainly also of interest to the general educated public, it collects a wide range of essays dealing with diverse modes of life writing and portraying from a variety of perspectives and focusing on different historical periods and media. It thus offers itself as a major contribution to a better understanding of the world we live in: its past legacy and present configuration.
TABLE DES MATIÈRES
Introduction: Signposts of the Self in Modernity
Part I. The Representational Dilemma
Christopher PRENDERGAST: The Self as a Work of Art: Proust's Scepticism
Paulo DE MEDEIROS: (Re-)Constructing, (Re-)Membering Postcolonial Selves
Aleksandra PODSIADLIK: ‘Doing Identity' in Fiction: Identity Construction as a Dialogue between Individuals and Cultural Narratives
Clara ROWLAND: Self-Representation and Temporality: ‘Parabasis' in Guimarães Rosa's Grande Sertão: Veredas
Daniël ROVERS: New Man: Marie Kessels' Inner Portrait of a Writing Self
Gaston FRANSSEN: Good Intentions, Ethical Commitment, and Impersonal Poetry:The Work of Gerrit Kouwenaar
Jan RUPP: ‘For-Getting' Plural Selves: Narrative and Identity in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore
Lars BERNAERTS: The Straitjacket of Normality. The Interaction with the Psychiatrist in Maurits Dekker's Waarom ik niet krankzinnig ben
Lars DALUM GRANILD: The Self's Struggle for Recognition: August Strindberg and the Other
Marinela FREITAS: Unshaded Shadows: Performances of Gender in Emily Dickinson and Luiza Neto Jorge
Part II. Signalling Identity
Peter BROOKS: The Identity Paradigm
Roland GREENE: The Global I
Davy VAN OERS: Staining the Past with Ink in Lorenzo Da Ponte's Memorie (1830): The Fallacies of Autobiographical ‘Writing'
Eli PARK SORENSEN: Between Autobiography and Fiction: Narrating the Self in Gabriel García Márquez's Vivir para contarla
Mirjam TRUWANT: The Passion of Lena Christ: From Fictionalized Autobiography to Biographical Novel
Ricardo GIL SOEIRO: Dreams in the Mirror: George Steiner by George Steiner
Part III. Images of the Self Across the Arts
Timothy MATHEWS: Reading W. G. Sebald with Alberto Giacometti
Paula MORÃO: The Impossible Self-Portrait
Anna Viola SBORGI: Between Literature and the Visual Arts: Portraits of the Self in William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Fernando Pessoa
Jakob STOUGAARD-NIELSEN: Photography and Shadow-Writing: Henry James's Revisions of the Self in the New York Edition
Patrick VAN ROSSEM: Consumed by the Audience. Inhibition, Fear, and Anxiety in the Oeuvre of Bruce Nauman
Anke BROUWERS: There Was Something about Mary: Mary Pickford's Perfect ‘Little American'
Verena-Susanna NUNGESSER: Paint it Red: Death Artistry as a Po