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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kearney, Beth

Titel

“L’Histoire se lit dans la rue”: Urban Streetscapes as Sites of a Fragmented Identity in Colette Fellous’s Avenue de France

Ist Teil von

• Australian journal of French studies, 2023-07, Vol.60 (2), p.136-148

Ort / Verlag

Clayton, Vic: Liverpool University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article examines Avenue de France (2001), the first volume in an autobiographical trilogy by Jewish Franco-Maghrebi writer, Colette Fellous. The book pairs first-person writing with a series of images. This study examines Fellous's use of photography and argues that the urban sites represented in the text and images communicate the fragmented nature of the first-person subject. The narrator is an individual fragmented across spatiotemporal divides, as she is strongly informed by the collective, and sometimes conflicting, narratives throughout history that shape her identity. The primary objective here is thus to demonstrate that Fellous's representation of spatial sites actively contributes to her portrayal of the first-person self. The secondary aim is to show that her specific use of photography plays a crucial role in representing urban spaces as "sites" of a fragmented identity.