The critically contested referential gaps that pervade the genres of autobiography and photography are precisely what work for Duras who, through the interplay of written and visual texts, explores ekphrastic representational technologies to establish a semantic system in which the autobiographical referent cannot be fixed.
.... seeks to outline the possibility of the authors to establish their self-images, not as testaments of womanhood, but rather as the strong authorial imprint in which they interprets the experiences of the inevitably gendered life.
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The critically contested referential gaps that pervade the genres of autobiography and photography are precisely what work for Duras who, through the interplay of written and visual texts, explores ekphrastic representational technologies to establish a semantic system in which the autobiographical referent cannot be fixed.