The Autofictional -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: From Autofiction to the Autofictional -- Works Cited -- Part I: Approaches -- Chapter 2: Of Strange Loops and Real Effects: Five Theses on Autofiction/the Autofictional -- There Is a Need for the Term "Autofiction" -- The Autofictional Is a Scalable and Latent Dimension in All Autobiographical Writing -- Imagination Supports Autobiographical Reference -- Autofiction Produces Real-Life Effects -- Autofiction Oscillates Between Fictionality and Factuality -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: The Fictional in Autofiction -- The Theoretical Adventures of Autofiction -- Fictionality and Hybridity -- I/Not I -- Autofiction: A Novel -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: A Cognitive Perspective on Autofictional Writing, Texts, and Reading -- Autofictional Reading -- Autofictional Writing -- Autofictional Texts -- Philip Roth -- Olivia Laing -- Ben Lerner -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: "The Pragmatics of Autofiction" -- What's in a Name? -- "Enhancers" -- Metafiction -- Time, Tenses, and the Fallibility of Memory -- Apostrophe -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: The Autofictional in Serial, Literary Works -- Serial Chapters: Dorothy Richardson -- A Serial Oeuvre: Doris Lessing -- Serial Episodes: Rachel Cusk -- Works Cited -- Part II: Affordances -- Chapter 7: Metanarrative Autofiction: Critical Engagement with Cultural Narrative Models -- Narrative, Memory, and Imagination in Ernaux's Les Ann�ees -- Knausgaard's Essayistic Storytelling: The Search for Authenticity -- Swan's Autofictional Cancer (Counter-)Narrative -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8: Multilingual Autofiction: Mobilizing Language(s)? -- Transcultural Authors and the Appeal of the Autofictional -- From Experience to Experiment: Toward a Political Strategy in Multilingualism.

Voices from Germany, Sweden, and Denmark -- Bakhtin's Voices and Languages -- Polyphony on the Narrative Level -- Polyglossia on a Linguistic Level -- Performativity and the Author in His Social Field -- A Genre In-Between -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9: Visual Autofiction: A Strategy for Cultural Inclusion -- The Role of Cultural Mimicry in Autofictional Practice -- Cultural Assimilation and Language Loss -- Imagining the "Self" Through Time and Memory -- The "Trickery" Revealed -- Unrequited Love -- "Re-presentation": An Autofictional Strategy for Alternate Presentations of the "Self" -- Works Cited -- Chapter 10: Autofiction, Post-conflict Narratives, and New Memory Cultures -- Singular Collective Voices -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun -- Shared Heritage in Up Against the Night -- Autofiction and Memory Cultures -- Works Cited -- Chapter 11: Autofiction as a Lens for Reading Contemporary Egyptian Writing -- Waguih Ghali's Autofictional Identity -- Auto/Fictional Gestures -- Contextual Identifications -- Epilogue of the Self -- Epigraph of Fiction -- Radwa Ashour's Autofictional Threads -- The University as lieu de m�emoire -- Autofictionalizing Experience in Miral al-Tahawy's Brooklyn Heights -- Experiences of Displacement and Self-Representation -- Fictionalizing Personal Memory -- Autofictional Memoir? -- Works Cited -- Part III: Forms -- Chapter 12: Autofiction and Film: Archival Practices in Post-millennial Documentary Cinema in Argentina and Spain -- "But the Images Are Not There": Archival Excess in Albertina Carri's Cuatreros -- "You Are the One Who Has No Memory!" Autofictional Cinema in Response to the Iberian Crisis -- Post-millennial Autofictional Cinema from Argentina and Spain -- Works Cited -- Chapter 13: Autofiction and Shish�osetsu: Women Writers and Reinventing the Self -- Shish�osetsu and the Ambiguity of the Self.

The Metamorphosed Self: Kanai Mieko -- The (Mis)gendered Self: Sagisawa Megumu -- The Bilingual Self: Mizumura Minae -- Shish�osetsu, Autofiction, and a New Model of National Literature -- Works Cited -- Chapter 14: Autofiction and the Diary: The Radicalization of Autofiction in Works by Herv�e Guibert and Christine Angot -- The Two Generations -- Diaries and Autofiction -- Herv�e Guibert's Diaristic Writing -- Christine Angot's Diaristic Writing -- Works Cited -- Chapter 15: Autofiction and Self-Portraiture: Jenny Diski and Claude Cahun -- Facelessness and Masquerade -- Self-Portraiture and Narcissism -- Naming: Self-Portraiture and Autofiction -- Works Cited -- Chapter 16: Autofiction and Photography: "The Split of the Mirror" -- Self-Representation and the Advent of the Photographic Image -- Changing Reflections: Photography in Transsexual Life Writing -- Photography and the Autofictional in Annie Ernaux's Oeuvre -- Works Cited -- Index.

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