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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"autofiction"”.
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Autofiction à la grecque: Greek autobiographical fiction (1971-1995)
… examines the emergence and development of Greek ‘autofiction’ from<br/>1971 until 1995, through the selected works of six writers: Kostas Tachtsis, Melpo Axioti, Vassilis Vassilikos, Vassilis Alexakis, Yiannis Kiourtsakis and Michel Fais.I have chosen to employ the term ‘autofiction’ (first …
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Genres of Parody: Autofiction, Horror, and the Contemporary Novel
… overlaps between contemporary works of autofiction and horror. I contend that both respective categories exhibit a parodic relationship to their own genres, and I situate this argument within tentative designations that I call Digital Autofiction and Weird Horror. Parody here is …
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Ghost Kingdoms and Phantom Worlds: Narrative strategies in adoptee autofiction
In this thesis, I investigate Betty Jean Lifton’s theory of the Ghost Kingdom as it appears in adoptee-written narratives. Lifton describes the Ghost Kingdom as a “psychic reality” where what-if projections of lost or wished for persons (often conceptualized as characters) reside. Her theory …
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Doze horas restantes: neotragédia grega e autoficção no hip hop de Atheatos
… a reading of the protagonist as an exercise in autofiction as a survival narrative, along the lines of Eneida Maria de Souza (2017). Six selected songs will be analyzed more closely: "Prologue", "A society, a story", "My retrospective", "A good review", "Mysterious Life", and "Epilogue". This …
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Transformative Arts Practices in the Criminal Justice System. The impact of human rights violations on identity amongst those previously incarcerated
… is defined as autobiographical fiction or autofiction and becomes performative using TO. The core aim of this research and its process is to rewrite, redefine, or reclaim identity through performative autofiction. It unpacks the human rights violations experienced by the incarcerated, using …
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A Different Subject: Autotheory in Contemporary French Self-Writing
… ideological rupture with the predominant mode of autofiction. Chapter one establishes the critical ascendance and political valence of confessional French autofiction in the 1990s and 2000s through a reading of Anne F. Garréta’s faux autofiction, Pas un jour (2002). Bringing Lauren Berlant’s …
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A Healthy Interest in the Lives of Others
… relational aspects of identity, the stories are autofiction as I define it, all asking the question: how we use language and story to make ourselves and our worlds? The characters’ messy and sometimes thwarted navigations are reflected in and exacerbated by the use of narrative constraints …
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Poetics of Dislocation: Comparative Cosmopolitanism in Charlotte Brontë, Flora Tristan, and Toru Dutt
… from nineteenth-century, who used the genre of autofiction to transcribe their familial trauma and dislocation to reconstitute themselves with the help of their empathic readers. Charlotte Brontë's novels, Jane Eyre and Villette, Flora Tristan's memoir from her travels to Peru, Pérégrinations …
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La escritura autobiográfica en el fin del siglo XIX: el ciclo novelístico de Pío Cid considerado como la autoficción de Ángel Ganivet
… Pío Cid, as a thread in a narrative form, the autofiction, which characterizes the narrative work of writers who represent the period from the end of 19th century to the beginning of 20th century, which falls within the Spanish Modernism and, specifically, within the movement known as …
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Imperial Green
Imperial Green is a 66-minute experimental autofiction film by filmmaker Zachary Lacosse, loosely structured as a reimagining of his life prior to relocating to Toronto. Set in Metrotown, a suburban district of Burnaby, British Columbia, the film foregrounds a place that has exerted a formative …
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Until it's Safe to Return to My Body
Until it's Safe to Return to My Body is an autofiction novella that follows the narrator as she recounts her tumultuous childhood and attempts to understand why she survived while her best friend did not. The novella delves into the ways in which violence can manifest in subtle ways, particularly …
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Against The World, Against Life: The Use and Abuse of the Autobiographical Genre in the Works of Fernando Vallejo
… between autobiography and what Doubrovsky calls "autofiction" in Vallejo's collection of five texts known as El rio del tiempo. Lejeune has shown that the canonical form of autobiography is characterized by the equation author=narrator=character. However, if we apply this clear-cut definition to …
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'So many ways of being better': Contemporary US fiction and cultures of self-help
… of time management becomes, for certain ‘autofiction’ writers, a means of interrogating conflicting rhythms of self, society, and artistic flow. Asked to understand themselves as creative freelance entrepreneurs, they use self-help practices to manage their time and selfhood differently. …
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La figure d'autrice : mises en scène de soi et réception des écrits intimes de Claire Martin, Marie Uguay et Nelly Arcan
… de l’intime (autobiographie, journal intime, autofiction) et la figure d’autrice. Jusqu’à présent, les écrits théoriques portant sur le concept de figure auctoriale, défini comme une représentation imaginaire de l’écrivain·e façonnée par les tiers, reposent presque exclusivement sur des …
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Después del exilio: El regreso y el retorno en la autoficción latinoamericana del siglo XXI
… and the metareflective role that the genre of autofiction plays in this interaction. The dissertation examines the twenty-first century autofictions of four Latin American countries: <em>La casa de los Conejos </em>by Laura Alcoba of Argentina; <em>Memorias prematuras </em>by Rafael Gumucio of …
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Lucia Berlin: A Critical Biography
… instance, as a ‘dirty realist’ or as a writer of autofiction.
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Cine Fantástico Y De Terror De Directoras Españolas: Una Mirada Empática
… whom are women. Through narratives that approach autofiction, these films explore negative emotions such as anxiety, fear, discomfort, grief, and exhaustion, understood as manifestations of broader social dynamics within contexts shaped by precarity and gender inequality. These affects are …
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Autobiography as a Curiosity: Generic (In)definition, Narrative Time and Figuration in Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory, Georges Perec’s W or the Memory of Childhood and Javier Marías’s Dark Back of Time
… portmanteau tags such as ‘autobiografiction’ or ‘autofiction’) and anti-models such as Paul De Man’s, suspicious about the possibility of containing, defining or naming autobiography (highlighted by their use of temporallyimpossible or paradoxical figures). Through the curiosity (a figure of …
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La mise en page de l’enfant déraciné: l’identité, la mémoire et l’autofiction
… Francophone novels belonging to the genres of autofiction and childhood memoir: Petit pays (2016) by Gaël Faye, Un papillon dans la cité (1992) by Gisèle Pineau and France, récit d’une enfance (2006) by Zahia Rahmani. This analysis brings together literature from Francophone regions that not …
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