Meta-Autobiographical Forms of Autofiction

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Result on the web
<a href="https://ceska-literatura.phil.muni.cz/konference/life-storying-in-the-21st-century-interdisciplinary-approaches" target="_blank" >https://ceska-literatura.phil.muni.cz/konference/life-storying-in-the-21st-century-interdisciplinary-approaches</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Meta-Autobiographical Forms of Autofiction
Original language description
The paper discusses autofiction or “the autofictional” as a strategy that can occur across different genres and media. I argue that as opposed to inevitable construction and inaccuracy involved in any life narrative, autofiction employs fictionality consciously and deliberately towards a rhetorical end, while not fully cancelling autobiographical reference. Such deliberate transgressions of the border between factuality and fictionality may serve to highlight the constructed nature of all autobiographical narrative, to challenge conventional notions of “truth,” or to draw attention to the ongoing process of self-invention. I introduce Czech writer Jan Němec’s work Possibilities of a Love Novel (2019) as an example of meta-autobiographical autofiction that stages an attempt at autobiographical utterance and simultaneously thematises the difficulties such attempts entail.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA21-12454S" target="_blank" >GA21-12454S: Fact and Fiction in Life Stories: Life Writing and Its Narrative Strategies</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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