Reading the Self in Selfies
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Hannah Westley [1]
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[1] American University of Paris
American University of Paris
París, Francia
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- Localización: Comparative Critical Studies, ISSN 1744-1854, Vol. 13, Nº. 3, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Experimental Narratives: From the Novel to Digital Storytelling), págs. 371-390
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Responding to recent scholarship from auto/biography and media studies, this article situates the selfie as a text which makes meaning through its placement in a narrative framework. Considering how our online representation interacts with traditional means of self-representation, the article focuses on how this affects the way we understand the key concepts of narrative and identity. To what extent are selfies the most recent incarnation of Lejeune's autobiographical pact, relocating the problematics of autobiography as genre as an interaction between reader and text? What we refer to as a selfie refers to the act of taking a picture, the picture itself and the placement of that picture within specific technologies of exhibition and archiving. Like the selfie, identity is both a practice and a product and critics must be more attentive to this distinction.
