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OverviewAutofiction is often associated with humour, irony, and play. Moreover, authors of autofictional texts are frequently criticised for a lack of seriousness or for failing to straightforwardly and in their own voice engage with a given topic. Yet very few autofictional texts are exclusively, or even primarily, playful. Many employ humour and irony to address very serious subject matter. This volume explores how these seemingly opposed characteristics of autofictional texts in fact work together. The contributions in this volume show that autofictional texts often make use of humour and play in a productive and meaningful way, tackling issues such as human rights violations, historical and collective as well as personal trauma, and struggle with psychological or physical illness and abuse. On the basis of geographically wide-ranging case studies, including texts from South America, South Africa, the United States, and Europe, this book explores how, in which contexts, and to which effects autofictional texts reveal their authors’ complex and often painful psychological experiences and engage the emotions of their readers. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Life Writing. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alexandra Effe (University of Oslo, Norway) , Arnaud Schmitt (University of Bordeaux, France)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.420kg ISBN: 9781032411064ISBN 10: 1032411066 Pages: 152 Publication Date: 26 December 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationAlexandra Effe is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is the author of J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression (2017) and co-editor of The Autofictional (2022). She has published articles in the Journal for Narrative Theory, Modern Fiction Studies, and Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Arnaud Schmitt is a Professor at the University of Bordeaux, France. His field of research is American literature, and he has also worked extensively on the concepts of autofiction and self-narration. He is the author, among others, of The Phenomenology of Autobiography: Making it Real (2017) and the forthcoming The Photographer as Autobiographer (2022). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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