Marjorie Worthington

Story of "e;Me"e; (eBook, ePUB)

Contemporary American Autofiction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Autofiction, or works in which the eponymous author appears as a fictionalized character, represents a significant trend in postwar American literature, when it proliferated to become a kind of postmodern cliché. The Story of "Me" charts the history and development of this genre, analyzing its narratological effects and discussing its cultural implications. By tracing autofiction's conceptual issues through case studies and an array of texts, Marjorie Worthington sheds light on a number of issues for postwar American writing: the maleness of the postmodern canon-and anxieties created by the supposed waning of male privilege-the relationship between celebrity and authorship, the influence of theory, the angst stemming from claims of the "death of the author," and the rise of memoir culture. Worthington constructs and contextualizes a bridge between the French literary context, from which the term originated, and the rise of autofiction among various American literary movements, from modernism to New Criticism to New Journalism. The Story of "Me" demonstrates that the burgeoning of autofiction serves as a barometer of American literature, from modernist authorial effacement to postmodern literary self-consciousness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496208736
• Artikelnr.: 54577367

Autorenporträt

Marjorie Worthington is a professor of English and in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Eastern Illinois University.    

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Masculinity
Whiteness
and Postmodern Self-Consciousness: Vladimir Nabokov
John Barth
Kurt Vonnegut
and Richard Powers 2. Rage against the Dying of the Author: Philip Roth
Arthur Phillips
Ruth Ozeki
Salvador Plascencia
and Percival Everett 3. The New Journalism as the New Fiction: Tom Wolfe
Norman Mailer
Hunter S. Thompson
Joan Didion
Mark Leyner
and Bret Easton Ellis 4. Trauma Autofiction
Dissociation
and the Authenticity of “Real” Experience: Kurt Vonnegut
Raymond Federman
Tim O’Brien
and Jonathan Safran Foer 5. Memoir vs. Autofiction as the Story of Me vs. the Story of “Me”: Philip Roth
Richard Powers
Bret Easton Ellis
and Ron Currie Jr. Coda     Appendix: American Autofictions Notes References Index