Editors:
- Applies a concept that has previously only had significant currency in French literary theory to literature in English
- Explores characteristic features and definitions of autofiction from a theoretical and conceptual standpoint in the English language
- Considers the extent to which certain current Anglophone writers can be considered practitioners of autofiction
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing (PSLW)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Writing After Trauma
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University, Poole, United Kingdom
Hywel Dix
About the editor
Hywel Dix is Principal Lecturer in English and Communication at Bournemouth University, UK. He has published extensively on contemporary British literature, most notably in After Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain (Second Edition, 2013) and Postmodern Fiction and the Break-Up of Britain (2010). His wider research interests include postmodernism, critical cultural theory and life writing. His monograph about literary careers, The Late-Career Novelist, was published in 2017.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Autofiction in English
Editors: Hywel Dix
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89902-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89901-5Published: 15 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07890-4Published: 08 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-89902-2Published: 04 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2730-9185
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9193
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 283
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory