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work_mevee444jbcu5j3f4ubuafejsm	Corinne Andersen	I Am Not Who "I" Pretend to Be: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and its Photographic Frontispiece	2005	13	.pdf	application/pdf	5808	1038	71	With the frontispiece, Stein establishes a comparison between two purportedly direct modes of referentiality: autobiography and portrait photography. TheAutobiographyofAliceB.Toklas, Stein asserts that autobiographies reveal much While his phrasing is more delicate, Charles Caramello also views Stein's intent in The Autobiography as self-serving. Stein's innovative ruse of authorship explicitly uncovers the premises of autobiography's construction and thereby challenges the genre's status as a direct mode of In The Autobiography, Stein purposefully distorts Toklas's reflection in order to Neither the frontispiece nor TheAutobiography captures ''reality.'' Man Ray depicts Toklas and Stein as they pose for the camera, not as they truly are. Instead, the last paragraph suggests that The Autobiography provides a fictionalized account of Toklas's perceptions of Stein. of Picasso's Portrait from The Autobiography, Stein has the last word. The double self-portrait that serves as The Autobiography's frontispiece, as well as Stein's innovative ruse of authorship, exposes the ego's	./cache/work_mevee444jbcu5j3f4ubuafejsm.pdf	./txt/work_mevee444jbcu5j3f4ubuafejsm.txt