Multiple Dorian Grays: Yinka Shonibare Photographical Take on Oscar Wilde’s Only Novel

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  • Rita Barroso Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.34630/e-rei.vi12.5816

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literature, photography, transmediality, cultural approach

Résumé

Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) is one of the cornerstones of Victorian literature. Having this in mind, this paper intends to pounder on Yinka Shonibare’s transmedial work, titled Dorian Gray (2001), compiled in eleven black and white photographs and a coloured one, depicting himself as Dorian. The pillars of such work go back not only to the novel itself, but also to Albert Lewin’s film adaptation of the former [The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)]. As such and having the photographic pieces as the focus, a reflexion will be conducted to understand in what ways the vision of the authors changed the already shifting nature of Wilde’s main character and how referred mutations were impacted by their context of creation, as well as how they may have influenced the reception of the literary work and Dorian himself. It also aims to think about the significance behind such transformations, along with reflecting on the contemporaneity of reimagining this idealised perfect persona as something very distant form the Irish writer’s primary depiction, crystalized by an art that, in the nineteenth century, was gaining popularity but was yet far from assuming the lead role as the key media to represent one’s external aspect

Biographie de l'auteur

Rita Barroso, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto

Rita Barroso is enrolled in the Master in Literary, Cultural and Interart Studies and in the Bachelor in
Applied Languages at Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. She is currently producing
her master’s dissertation on Junji Ito’s Tomie (1987-2001) and the contemporary reimagination of the
Japanese mythological figure of yūrei. Previously, she completed her bachelor’s in History at the same institution. She has been attending and actively participating in conferences and seminars since 2022. Her
main fields of interest and research are Interart Studies, Translation Studies, Japanese Studies, Folklore Studies and Horror Literature/Cinema

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2024-06-05

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Barroso, R. (2024). Multiple Dorian Grays: Yinka Shonibare Photographical Take on Oscar Wilde’s Only Novel. E- Revista De Estudos Interculturais , (12). https://doi.org/10.34630/e-rei.vi12.5816

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