Picturing the Maghreb: Literature, Photography, (Re)Presentation (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France)
Mary B. Vogl
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Paperback. Argues that four French writers - Michel Tournier, J.M.G. Le Clezio, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Leila Sebbar - practice "activist writing" which, when combined with the work of certain photographers, reframes a picture of Maghreb produced by two centuries of Orientalist misrepresentation. Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France. Num Pages: 240 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ADF; AJC; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 317.
Among the visual media, photography is one of the most powerful means of representation because of its immediacy and its supposed objectivity: photography has been popularly accepted as an accurate reflection of what is real. Contemporary thinkers, however, are questioning these assumptions, looking at the vocabulary of possession and aggression photographers use in 'taking' a picture—'load,' 'aim,' 'shoot'—and investigating the implications of such vocabulary especially on Western notions of non-Western cultures. Some of today's most prominent French writers, acutely aware of this crisis of representation and suspicion of the image, have used photography in their fiction to examine ... Read more
Among the visual media, photography is one of the most powerful means of representation because of its immediacy and its supposed objectivity: photography has been popularly accepted as an accurate reflection of what is real. Contemporary thinkers, however, are questioning these assumptions, looking at the vocabulary of possession and aggression photographers use in 'taking' a picture—'load,' 'aim,' 'shoot'—and investigating the implications of such vocabulary especially on Western notions of non-Western cultures. Some of today's most prominent French writers, acutely aware of this crisis of representation and suspicion of the image, have used photography in their fiction to examine ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Condition
New
Series
After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742515468
SKU
V9780742515468
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About Mary B. Vogl
Mary B. Vogl is assistant professor of French at Colorado State University.
Reviews for Picturing the Maghreb: Literature, Photography, (Re)Presentation (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France)
Mary Vogl's premise—that photography serves as a springboard for investigating broader questions of representation in the Francophone literary domain—is highly original. Her work adds a significant visual dimension to Francophone scholarship.
Valérie Orlando, Illinois Wesleyan University An important contribution.
Etudes Francophones
Picturing the Maghreb is a very well-grounded literary study of contemporary French and North African writers ... Read more
Valérie Orlando, Illinois Wesleyan University An important contribution.
Etudes Francophones
Picturing the Maghreb is a very well-grounded literary study of contemporary French and North African writers ... Read more