Experimental Life Writing Today
Experimental Life Writing Today
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This comprehensive volume offers compelling critical essays surveying the myriad forms of innovation in contemporary Anglophone life writing. Experimental Life Writing Today provides a historical and critical context for examining avant-garde tendencies in biography and autobiography and outlines the poetics of experimental life writing.
The volume is divided into two parts. The first is devoted to a selection of experimental genres of life writing: autofiction, biofiction, paramemoir, autotheory, graphic memoir, photo-memoir, eco-memoir and the lyric essay. Part Two includes chapters concerned with the following themes, concepts and devices set in the context of experimental life writing: illness, disability, mourning, relationality, place, catalogue, narration and fragmentation.
To ensure clarity and consistency, each chapter follows the same structure: a theoretical discussion of a given notion, comprising a brief discussion of its various aspects and examples, followed by a close reading of a chosen text. Case studies are devoted to significant contemporary works by authors such as Hazel V. Carby, J. M. Coetzee, Anne Garréta, Karen Green, Vona Groarke, Han Kang, Mary Karr, Deborah Levy, Hilary Mantel, Maggie Nelson, Ruth Ozeki, Mark Tredinnick, Una, D.J. Waldie and Wim Wenders. The volume is dedicated to exploring innovative forms of, and in, contemporary Anglophone life writing, and it makes an important contribution to a rich and burgeoning field of interdisciplinary practice and research.
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A Cartography of Experimental Life Writing - Wojciech Drag, University of Wroclaw, Poland; Vanessa Guignery, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
II. Genres
1. Autofiction (Martha Swift, University of Oxford, UK)
2. Biofiction (Laura Cernat, KU Leuven, Belgium)
3. Paramemoir (Irene Kacandes, Dartmouth College, USA)
4. Autotheory (Robert Kusek, Jagiellonian University, Poland)
5. Graphic memoir (Elzbieta Klimek-Dominiak, University of Wroclaw, Poland)
6. Photo-memoir (Teresa Brus, University of Wroclaw, Poland)
7. Eco-memoir (Martina Horáková, Masaryk University, Czechia)
8. Lyric essay (Laura De La Parra Fernandez, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
III. Themes, concepts and devices
9. Illness (Maria Antonietta Struzziero, independent scholar)
10. Disability (Pawel Wojtas, University of Warsaw, Poland)
11. Mourning (Héloïse Lecomte, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France)
12. Relationality (Kim Schoof, Open University, Netherlands)
13. Place (Joseph Darlington, Futureworks Media School, UK)
14. Catalogue (Grzegorz Maziarczyk, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
15. Narration (Zuzana Fonioková, Masaryk University, Czechia)
16. Fragmentation (Dominika Ferens, University of Wroclaw, Poland, Wojciech Drag, University of Wroclaw, Poland)
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| Published | 02 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 264 |
| ISBN | 9781350529939 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 15 bw illus |
| Series | New Directions in Life Narrative |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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