The Changing Ways of Writing and Reading Autobiography and Autofiction : Self as Performance in Jan Němec’s Ways of Writing about Love

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Changing Ways of Writing and Reading Autobiography and Autofiction : Self as Performance in Jan Němec’s Ways of Writing about Love

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Changing Ways of Writing and Reading Autobiography and Autofiction : Self as Performance in Jan Němec’s Ways of Writing about Love

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60205 - Literary theory

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA21-12454S" target="_blank" >GA21-12454S: Fakta a fikce v životních příbězích: narativní strategie autobiografického psaní</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

PARTIAL ANSWERS-JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND THE HISTORY OF IDEAS

ISSN

1565-3668

e-ISSN

1936-9247

Svazek periodika

23

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

19

Strana od-do

249-267

Kód UT WoS článku

001530606100004

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105007997382