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What strategies do contemporary writers and artists use to project a public image of a private self? How do emergent technologies impact the representation of the autobiographical self in relation to community? Focused on the history and present-day uses of literary and photographic self-portraiture in France since the Second World War, this course explores themes of Jewish identity, gay and queer subjectivity, and feminist critique by asking how we view others picturing themselves, illuminating our understanding of the construction of selfhood. Course taught in English, based on works translation from the French.