The Autofictional: Approaches, Affordances, Forms

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Acknowledgements Contents Notes on Contributors List of Figures 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