Hywel Dix

Autofiction and Cultural Memory (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Autofiction and Cultural Memory breaks new ground in autofiction research by showing how it gives postcolonial writers a means of bearing witness to past cultural or political struggles, and hence of contributing to new forms of cultural memory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000854282
• Artikelnr.: 66978794

Autorenporträt

Hywel Dix is Professor of English at Bournemouth University. His research interests include modern and contemporary literature, critical cultural theory, authorial careers and autofiction. His publications include The Late-Career Novelist (2017) and Autofiction in English (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction

1. On Autofiction and Cultural Memory

2. How the Author Became: Precursors and Preludes

3. The Author as Minor Character: Alternative Perspectives

4. The Poetics of Exile and Return

5. Autofiction Once, Twice, Three Times Removed

Conclusion

References

Index

Rezensionen

'Autofiction and Cultural Memory offers an excellent overview of recent thinking about the nature of autofiction and advances a persuasive argument. Drawing on a varied range of sources, Dix proposes a unique approach that will be useful for both literary study and interdisciplinary approaches to cultural memory. This is a key text for both experts and new scholars.'

Professor Timothy C. Baker, University of Aberdeen

'Reversing the polarity of autofiction from individual to society, Hywel Dix'sAutofiction and Cultural Memory shows how a form once understood to be concerned with the self becomes a way of telling collective stories and broadening cultural memory for contemporary writers from postcolonial cultures.'

James Harker, Bard College Berlin

'Autofiction and Cultural Memory offers an excellent overview of recent thinking about the nature of autofiction and advances a persuasive argument. Drawing on a varied range of sources, Dix proposes a unique approach that will be useful for both literary study and interdisciplinary approaches to cultural memory. This is a key text for both experts and new scholars.'

Professor Timothy C. Baker, University of Aberdeen

'Reversing the polarity of autofiction from individual to society, Hywel Dix'sAutofiction and Cultural Memory shows how a form once understood to be concerned with the self becomes a way of telling collective stories and broadening cultural memory for contemporary writers from postcolonial cultures.'

James Harker, Bard College Berlin