Essays
Autofictional
2021·338 pages
Open-access scholarly essays reframing autofiction as theory and aesthetic strategy across global authors, forms, and media.
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Open-access scholarly essays reframing autofiction as theory and aesthetic strategy across global authors, forms, and media.
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This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective, and from a broad application of “the autofictional” as a theoretical lens and aesthetic strategy. In three sections on “Approaches,” “Affordances,” and “Forms,” the volume proposes new theoretical approaches for the study of autofiction and the autofictional, offe...
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Sexual content
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Analytical mentions of intimacy and sexual abuse in discussed autofiction texts
Violence & gore
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Brief scholarly references to war and historical massacre in case studies
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Recurring themes of post-conflict memory, identity politics, and cultural critique
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Discusses sexual abuse, slavery memory, and wartime suffering in analyzed works
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