Autofiction in English / edited by Hywel Dix.
Dix, Hywel., editor.
2018
PN695-PN779
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Title
Autofiction in English / edited by Hywel Dix.
ISBN
9783319899022
3319899023
3319899015
9783319899015
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89902-2
Published
Cham Springer International Publishing Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XVI, 283 pages 1 illustration) : online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-89902-2 doi
Call Number
PN695-PN779
Dewey Decimal Classification
809
Summary
This innovative volume establishes autofiction as a new and dynamic area of theoretical research in English. Since the term was coined by Serge Doubrovsky, autofiction has become established as a recognizable genre within the French literary pantheon. Yet unlike other areas of French theory, English-language discussion of autofiction has been relatively limited - until now. Starting out by exploring the characteristic features and definitions of autofiction from a conceptual standpoint, the collection identifies a number of cultural, historical and theoretical contexts in which the emergence of autofiction in English can be understood. In the process, it identifies what is new and distinctive about Anglophone forms of autofiction when compared to its French equivalents. These include a preoccupation with the conditions of authorship; writing after trauma; and a heightened degree of authorial self-reflexivity beyond that typically associated with postmodernism. By concluding that there is such a field as autofiction in English, it provides for the first time detailed analysis of the major works in that field and a concise historical overview of its emergence. It thus opens up new avenues in life writing and authorship research.
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Dix, Hywel., editor.
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Palgrave studies in life writing.
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1. Introduction: Autofiction in English
The Story So Far: Hywel Dix
2. Does Autofiction Belong to French or Francophone Authors and Readers only?: Karen Ferreira-Meyers
3. Autofiction in the Third Person, with a Reading of Christine Brooke-Rose's Remake: Lorna Martens
4. How Art Constitutes the Human: Aesthetics, Empathy and the Interesting in Autofiction: Meg Jensen
5. Autoethnography in post-British Literatures: A Comparative Reading of Charlotte Williams and Jackie Kay: Lisa Sheppard
6. Graphic Autofiction and the Visualization of Trauma in Lynda Barry and Phoebe Gloeckner's Graphic Memoirs: Olga Michael
7. Illness Narratives and the Consolations of Autofiction: Graham J. Matthews
8. Lives in Story: Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried: Sarah Foust Vinson
9. Unpicked and Remade: Creative Imperatives in John Burnside's Autofictions: Ricarda Menn
10) Autofiction as a Reflexive Mode of Thought: Implications for Personal Development: Celia Hunt
11. Autofictionalizing Reflective Writing Pedagogies: Risks and Possibilities: Amelia Walker
12. Roth is Roth as Roth: Autofiction and the Implied Author: Todd Womble
13. Self and Fiction in Walking to Hollywood: Alex Belsey
14. Eye to I: American Autofiction and its Contexts from Jerzy Kosinski to Dave Eggers: Bran Nicol.

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