The Autofictional : : Approaches, Affordances, Forms.

• Superior document: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing Series
• Author: Effe, Alexandra.
• TeilnehmendeR: Lawlor, Hannie.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (343 pages)

Table of Contents

• The Autofictional
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Chapter 1: Introduction: From Autofiction to the Autofictional
• Works Cited
• Part I: Approaches
• Chapter 2: Of Strange Loops and Real Effects: Five Theses on Autofiction/the Autofictional
• There Is a Need for the Term "Autofiction"
• The Autofictional Is a Scalable and Latent Dimension in All Autobiographical Writing
• Imagination Supports Autobiographical Reference
• Autofiction Produces Real-Life Effects
• Autofiction Oscillates Between Fictionality and Factuality
• Works Cited
• Chapter 3: The Fictional in Autofiction
• The Theoretical Adventures of Autofiction
• Fictionality and Hybridity
• I/Not I
• Autofiction: A Novel
• Works Cited
• Chapter 4: A Cognitive Perspective on Autofictional Writing, Texts, and Reading
• Autofictional Reading
• Autofictional Writing
• Autofictional Texts
• Philip Roth
• Olivia Laing
• Ben Lerner
• Works Cited
• Chapter 5: "The Pragmatics of Autofiction"
• What's in a Name?
• "Enhancers"
• Metafiction
• Time, Tenses, and the Fallibility of Memory
• Apostrophe
• Works Cited
• Chapter 6: The Autofictional in Serial, Literary Works
• Serial Chapters: Dorothy Richardson
• A Serial Oeuvre: Doris Lessing
• Serial Episodes: Rachel Cusk
• Works Cited
• Part II: Affordances
• Chapter 7: Metanarrative Autofiction: Critical Engagement with Cultural Narrative Models
• Narrative, Memory, and Imagination in Ernaux's Les Années
• Knausgaard's Essayistic Storytelling: The Search for Authenticity
• Swan's Autofictional Cancer (Counter-)Narrative
• Works Cited
• Chapter 8: Multilingual Autofiction: Mobilizing Language(s)?
• Transcultural Authors and the Appeal of the Autofictional
• From Experience to Experiment: Toward a Political Strategy in Multilingualism.
• Voices from Germany, Sweden, and Denmark
• Bakhtin's Voices and Languages
• Polyphony on the Narrative Level
• Polyglossia on a Linguistic Level
• Performativity and the Author in His Social Field
• A Genre In-Between
• Works Cited
• Chapter 9: Visual Autofiction: A Strategy for Cultural Inclusion
• The Role of Cultural Mimicry in Autofictional Practice
• Cultural Assimilation and Language Loss
• Imagining the "Self" Through Time and Memory
• The "Trickery" Revealed
• Unrequited Love
• "Re-presentation": An Autofictional Strategy for Alternate Presentations of the "Self"
• Works Cited
• Chapter 10: Autofiction, Post-conflict Narratives, and New Memory Cultures
• Singular Collective Voices
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun
• Shared Heritage in Up Against the Night
• Autofiction and Memory Cultures
• Works Cited
• Chapter 11: Autofiction as a Lens for Reading Contemporary Egyptian Writing
• Waguih Ghali's Autofictional Identity
• Auto/Fictional Gestures
• Contextual Identifications
• Epilogue of the Self
• Epigraph of Fiction
• Radwa Ashour's Autofictional Threads
• The University as lieu de mémoire
• Autofictionalizing Experience in Miral al-Tahawy's Brooklyn Heights
• Experiences of Displacement and Self-Representation
• Fictionalizing Personal Memory
• Autofictional Memoir?
• Works Cited
• Part III: Forms
• Chapter 12: Autofiction and Film: Archival Practices in Post-millennial Documentary Cinema in Argentina and Spain
• "But the Images Are Not There": Archival Excess in Albertina Carri's Cuatreros
• "You Are the One Who Has No Memory!" Autofictional Cinema in Response to the Iberian Crisis
• Post-millennial Autofictional Cinema from Argentina and Spain
• Works Cited
• Chapter 13: Autofiction and Shishōsetsu: Women Writers and Reinventing the Self
• Shishōsetsu and the Ambiguity of the Self.
• The Metamorphosed Self: Kanai Mieko
• The (Mis)gendered Self: Sagisawa Megumu
• The Bilingual Self: Mizumura Minae
• Shishōsetsu, Autofiction, and a New Model of National Literature
• Works Cited
• Chapter 14: Autofiction and the Diary: The Radicalization of Autofiction in Works by Hervé Guibert and Christine Angot
• The Two Generations
• Diaries and Autofiction
• Hervé Guibert's Diaristic Writing
• Christine Angot's Diaristic Writing
• Works Cited
• Chapter 15: Autofiction and Self-Portraiture: Jenny Diski and Claude Cahun
• Facelessness and Masquerade
• Self-Portraiture and Narcissism
• Naming: Self-Portraiture and Autofiction
• Works Cited
• Chapter 16: Autofiction and Photography: "The Split of the Mirror"
• Self-Representation and the Advent of the Photographic Image
• Changing Reflections: Photography in Transsexual Life Writing
• Photography and the Autofictional in Annie Ernaux's Oeuvre
• Works Cited
• Index.