Visual Culture and Diasporic Self -Writing: Wajdi Mouawad Paints His Way Home

Q1 Arts and Humanities

a/b: Auto/Biography Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-04 DOI:10.1080/08989575.2021.2045747

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Abstract

Abstract Through the motif of painting, Wajdi Mouawad’s novel Visage retrouvé and solo performance Seuls depict ruptures from a homeland and deferred return, while resisting autobiographical interpretations. Although Mouawad’s works contain elements of his forced departure from Lebanon and migration to Montreal, his aesthetic choices confound correlations between the narratives and specific places or events.

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视觉文化和散居的自我写作:瓦伊迪·穆阿瓦德画他的回家之路

瓦伊迪·穆阿瓦德的小说《复兴的面容》和个人表演《Seuls》通过绘画的主题，描绘了从家园和延迟回归的断裂，同时抵制自传式的解释。尽管穆阿瓦德的作品包含了他被迫离开黎巴嫩和移居蒙特利尔的元素，但他的审美选择混淆了叙事与特定地点或事件之间的相关性。

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a/b: Auto/Biography Studies Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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期刊介绍： a /b: Auto/Biography Studies enjoys an international reputation for publishing the highest level of peer-reviewed scholarship in the fields of autobiography, biography, life narrative, and identity studies. a/b draws from a diverse community of global scholars to publish essays that further the scholarly discourse on historic and contemporary auto/biographical narratives. For over thirty years, the journal has pushed ongoing conversations in the field in new directions and charted an innovative path into interdisciplinary and multimodal narrative analysis. The journal accepts submissions of scholarly essays, review essays, and book reviews of critical and theoretical texts as well as proposals for special issues and essay clusters. Submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to independent, anonymous peer review.