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Autofiction, Emotions, and Humour - A Playfully Serious Affective Mode (Hardcover)
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Autofiction, Emotions, and Humour - A Playfully Serious Affective Mode (Hardcover)
Series: Life Writing
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Autofiction is often associated with humour, irony, and play.
Moreover, authors of autofictional texts are frequently criticised
for a lack of seriousness or for failing to straightforwardly and
in their own voice engage with a given topic. Yet very few
autofictional texts are exclusively, or even primarily, playful.
Many employ humour and irony to address very serious subject
matter. This volume explores how these seemingly opposed
characteristics of autofictional texts in fact work together. The
contributions in this volume show that autofictional texts often
make use of humour and play in a productive and meaningful way,
tackling issues such as human rights violations, historical and
collective as well as personal trauma, and struggle with
psychological or physical illness and abuse. On the basis of
geographically wide-ranging case studies, including texts from
South America, South Africa, the United States, and Europe, this
book explores how, in which contexts, and to which effects
autofictional texts reveal their authors' complex and often painful
psychological experiences and engage the emotions of their readers.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the
journal Life Writing.
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