The story of "me" : contemporary American autofiction /
"The Story of "Me" shows 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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press
[2018]
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| Col·lecció: | Frontiers of narrative.
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv7fmfvx |
Taula de continguts:
- Introduction: Autofiction in an American Context
- 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, The New Subjectivity as The New Objectivity: 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.