The Changing Ways of Writing and Reading Autobiography and Autofiction : Self as Performance in Jan Němec’s Ways of Writing about Love
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F25%3A00144363" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/25:00144363 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/961657" target="_blank" >https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/961657</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pan.2025.a961657" target="_blank" >10.1353/pan.2025.a961657</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Changing Ways of Writing and Reading Autobiography and Autofiction : Self as Performance in Jan Němec’s Ways of Writing about Love
Original language description
This article discusses the changing understanding and practice of autofiction in the broader cultural context of the transformations of lived reality, the media landscape, and ways of writing and reading life stories. Originally defined as an autobiographical narrative breaking the conventions of classical autobiography, autofiction and its meaning change as notions of autobiography and the autobiographical loosen. The article suggests that a signaled autofictional intent and deliberate ambiguity of framing are important markers of contemporary autofiction. The second part of the article analyzes the strategies of such signaling in Czech writer Jan Němec's Ways of Writing about Love (2019). It demonstrates how this work underlines the performative nature of self-representation by commenting on the process of self-narration and self-invention as well as by enacting a patchwork identity through inserting other texts and playful touches into the narrative. By allowing new media to influence the form of the book and by transcending the boundaries of the text to continue his self-performance in other media, Němec probes the possibilities not just of "writing about love" but also of performing the self. The work thus exemplifies autofiction's tendency to respond to sociocultural developments, including changing patterns of life storytelling.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
Result continuities
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)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
PARTIAL ANSWERS-JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND THE HISTORY OF IDEAS
ISSN
1565-3668
e-ISSN
1936-9247
Volume of the periodical
23
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
249-267
UT code for WoS article
001530606100004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105007997382