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The Aesthetics of Absence: Autofiction and the Fragmented Self in Contemporary Francophone Women's Writing
The Aesthetics of Absence: Autofiction and the Fragmented Self in Contemporary Francophone Women's Writing
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260311091523.5
- ISBN
- 9798270234409
- DDC
- 320.01
- 저자명
- Hamaide, Noémie
- 서명/저자
- The Aesthetics of Absence: Autofiction and the Fragmented Self in Contemporary Francophone Womens Writing / Noémie Hamaide
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The University of Texas at Austin, 2025
- 형태사항
- 1 electronic resource (143 pages)
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-06, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisors: Wettlaufer, Alexandra Committee members: Coffin, Judith; Picherit, Herve; Bos, Pascale.
- 학위논문주기
- - Ph.D. : The University of Texas at Austin, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation explores the aesthetics of absence in contemporary French and Francophone women's autofiction through the works of Marguerite Duras, Marie NDiaye, and Marjane Satrapi. Engaging with three distinct genres - the novel, theater, and graphic novel - it analyzes how these authors deploy formal strategies of omission, fragmentation, and silence to reimagine self-writing outside of traditional autobiographical frameworks. Rather than producing coherent, transparent accounts of the self, these works construct fractured subjectivities that resist legibility, continuity, and fixed identity.Absence, in this corpus, becomes an active narrative device rather than a mere lack. In L'Amant, Duras transforms memory into a field of ellipses, recursive images, and narrative withholding, stating a self that cannot be fully retrieved. NDiaye's theater radicalizes these strategies through visual and dramaturgical minimalism, her refusal of detailed stage directions, stable characters, or conclusive arcs destabilizes the audience's gaze and disperses identity across erasure, silence, and spectrality. Satrapi's' Persepolis mobilizes the graphic novel's visual grammar - black-and-white contrast, silent panels, and recursive motifs - to render trauma, exile, and childhood memory as unstable and visually incomplete.Drawing on theories of autofiction, trauma, and representation, this study argues that absence functions not as a gap to be filled, but as a representational strategy that foregrounds the ethical and epistemological limits of autobiographical narrative. Each author exemplifies a different position within the autofictional spectrum: Satrapi seemingly embraces autobiographical transparency, Duras blurs recollection and invention through recursive literary experimentation, and NDiaye displaces the autofictional voice across theatrical fragmentation. Their work collectively challenges the assumption that self-representation requires disclosure, proposing instead that opacity, silence, and formal indeterminacy can more powerfully evoke the complexity of memory, trauma, and identity.Ultimately, this dissertation theorizes absence as both a formal and political gesture, one that disrupts dominant narratives of selfhood, makes space for fragmented and racialized identities, and reconfigures the stakes of women's autofictional writing across media.
- 언어주기
- English
- 일반주제명
- Literature
- 일반주제명
- Womens studies
- 일반주제명
- Aesthetics
- 기타저자
- The University of Texas at Austin French and Italian
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-06A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aThis dissertation explores the aesthetics of absence in contemporary French and Francophone women's autofiction through the works of Marguerite Duras, Marie NDiaye, and Marjane Satrapi. Engaging with three distinct genres - the novel, theater, and graphic novel - it analyzes how these authors deploy formal strategies of omission, fragmentation, and silence to reimagine self-writing outside of traditional autobiographical frameworks. Rather than producing coherent, transparent accounts of the self, these works construct fractured subjectivities that resist legibility, continuity, and fixed identity.Absence, in this corpus, becomes an active narrative device rather than a mere lack. In L'Amant, Duras transforms memory into a field of ellipses, recursive images, and narrative withholding, stating a self that cannot be fully retrieved. NDiaye's theater radicalizes these strategies through visual and dramaturgical minimalism, her refusal of detailed stage directions, stable characters, or conclusive arcs destabilizes the audience's gaze and disperses identity across erasure, silence, and spectrality. Satrapi's' Persepolis mobilizes the graphic novel's visual grammar - black-and-white contrast, silent panels, and recursive motifs - to render trauma, exile, and childhood memory as unstable and visually incomplete.Drawing on theories of autofiction, trauma, and representation, this study argues that absence functions not as a gap to be filled, but as a representational strategy that foregrounds the ethical and epistemological limits of autobiographical narrative. Each author exemplifies a different position within the autofictional spectrum: Satrapi seemingly embraces autobiographical transparency, Duras blurs recollection and invention through recursive literary experimentation, and NDiaye displaces the autofictional voice across theatrical fragmentation. Their work collectively challenges the assumption that self-representation requires disclosure, proposing instead that opacity, silence, and formal indeterminacy can more powerfully evoke the complexity of memory, trauma, and identity.Ultimately, this dissertation theorizes absence as both a formal and political gesture, one that disrupts dominant narratives of selfhood, makes space for fragmented and racialized identities, and reconfigures the stakes of women's autofictional writing across media.
■546 ▼aEnglish
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■650 4▼aLiterature
■650 4▼aWomens studies
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■653 ▼aAutobiographical frameworks
■653 ▼aDramaturgical minimalism
■653 ▼aPolitical gesture
■7102 ▼aThe University of Texas at Austin▼bFrench and Italian.▼edegree granting institution.
■7201 ▼aWettlaufer, Alexandra▼edegree supervisor.
■7730 ▼tDissertations Abstracts International▼g87-06A.
■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17361261▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
