Introductory Remarks

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Dedication V
3. Acknowledgments
4. Contents XI
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Between Experience and Writing
7. Introductory Remarks 21
8. 1 Fiction as Framing of Experience 25
9. 2 The Turn to Authenticity 41
10. 3 Autofiction, Crisis, and Narrative Identity 51
11. Part II: Territories of the Sensitive
12. Introductory Remarks 69
13. 4 The Narrator as a Vulnerable Subject 79
14. 5 Autofiction in the Hope of Empathy 96
15. 6 Is Autofiction a Transgressive Genre? 109
16. Part III: The Narrativization of Trauma in Autofiction
17. Introductory Remarks 123
18. 7 Ways of Representing Trauma in Autofiction 129
19. 8 Autofiction between Therapy and Performativity 153
20. 9 Autofiction on Violence: The Ethics of Storytelling and the Symbolic Role of Language 163
21. 10 Cultural Trauma(s) in Russian-Language Autofiction 179
22. Part IV: Nostalgia for Immediacy
23. Introductory Remarks 195
24. 11 Autofiction and Photography: The “Ghost Image” from the First-Person Narrative 205
25. 12 Autofiction and New Media: In Search of Immediacy Lost 234
26. 13 Conclusion 245
27. Works Cited
28. Index 265