The autofictional : : approaches, affordances, forms / / edited by Alexandra Effe, Hannie Lawlor.

This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective, and from a broad application of “the autofictional” as a theoret...

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Superior document:Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2022.
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 338 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction: From Autofiction to the Autofictional; Alexandra Effe and Hannie Lawlor 2. Five Theses on Autofiction/the Autofictional; Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf 3. The Fictional in Autofiction; Alison James 4. A Cognitive Perspective on Autofictional Writing, Texts, and Reading; Alexandra Effe and Alison Gibbons 5. The Pragmatics of Autofiction; Arnaud Schmitt 6. The Autofictional in Serial, Literary Works; Ricarda Menn and Melissa Schuh 7. Metanarrative Autofiction: Critical Engagement with Cultural Narrative Models; Hanna Meretoja 8. Multilingual Autofiction: Mobilizing Language(s)?; Helle Egendal 9. Visual Autofiction: A Strategy for Cultural Inclusion; Karen Ferreira-Meyers and Bontle Tau 10. Autofiction, Post-conflict Narratives, and New Memory Cultures; Hywel Dix 11. Autofiction as a Lens for Reading Contemporary Egyptian Writing; Hala Kamal, Fatma Atef Massoud, and Zainab Magdy 12. Autofiction and Film: Archival Practices in Post-Millennial Documentary Cinema in Argentina and Spain; Anna Forné and Patricia López-Gay 13. Autofiction and Shishōsetsu: Women Writers and Reinventing the Self; Justyna Kasza.-14. Autofiction and the Diary: The Radicalization of Autofiction in works by Hervé Guibert and Christine Angot; Sam Ferguson.-15. Autofiction and Self-Portraiture: Jenny Diski and Claude Cahun; Ben Grant 16. Visual Autofiction: A Strategy for Cultural Inclusion Autofiction and Photography: "The Split of the Mirror"; Laura Marcus