Autofiction and Cultural Memory
Hywel Dix, "Autofiction and Cultural Memory "
English | ISBN: 1032322233 | 2022 | 112 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1032322233 | 2022 | 112 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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.
Most discussion of autofiction has treated it as an individualistic form, dealing with the personal growth of its authors. In doing so, it privileges narratives of private development over those of social commitment and accords with Western concepts of ownership and authorship. By contrast, Hywel Dix shows how a variety of writers outside the Western world have used the techniques of autofiction in a different way, placing themselves on the side lines of their own stories to show solidarity with struggles against imperialism and tyranny.
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