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This book depicts that autofictional texts often make use of humour and play in a productive and meaningful way, tackling issues like human rights violations, historical, collective and personal trauma, and struggle with psychological or physical illness and abuse. It was originally published as special issue of
Life Writing.
List of contents
1. Autofiction, Emotions, and Humour: A Playfully Serious Affective Mode 2. Avatars as the Raison d'Être of Autofiction 3. The Bronx in Short Trousers: Jerome Charyn's Mischievous Childhood Recollections in
The Dark Lady from Belorusse 4. The Ridiculous Legend of El Gran Vázquez: Self-deprecation and Picaresque in the Autofictional Comics by Vázquez 5. A Trickster's Tale: Autofictional Humour in Günter Grass's
Beim Häuten der Zwiebel 6. Gender Tensions, Taboos and Textual Acts in Melina Rorke's Autofiction 7. Resistance and Desire: Autofictional Satire and Intersubjectivity in Samuel Shem's
The House of God 8. Autofiction and Testimony in Vigdis Hjorth's
Will and Testament 9. Uncovering the Unwritten: A Paratextual Analysis of Autofiction 10. Archival Autofiction in Post-Dictatorship Argentina
About the author
Alexandra 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).
Summary
This book depicts that autofictional texts often make use of humour and play in a productive and meaningful way, tackling issues like human rights violations, historical, collective and personal trauma, and struggle with psychological or physical illness and abuse. It was originally published as special issue of Life Writing.
