The Autofictional: Approaches, Affordances, Forms

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