Autofiction, Emotions, and Humour: A Playfully Serious Affective Mode

ISBN-13: 9781032411064 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 154 str.

Effe, Alexandra

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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