Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction / / ed. by Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf.

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• MitwirkendeR: Achermann, Eric,; Adesokan, Akin,; Anderson, Linda,; Arklay, Tracey,; Arnez, Monika,; Banerjee, Mita,; Blackson, Thomas A.,; Block, Richard,; Blum, Gerd,; Blöbaum, Bernd,; Bode, Frauke,; Bowers, Jack,; Brandstetter, Gabriele,; Brant, Clare,; Breuer, Ulrich,; Brown, Jane K.,; Christen, Matthias,; Crane, Kylie,; Depkat, Volker,; Dufner, Annette,; Emmerich, Reinhard,; Enderwitz, Susanne,; Enenkel, Karl,; Farrell, Michael,; Fleig, Anne,; Gehrmann, Susanne,; Georgakopoulou, Alexandra,; Giuriato, Davide,; Glauch, Sonja,; Gronemann, Claudia,; Gunia, Inke,; Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Irmela,; Holdenried, Michaela,; Hong, Yu,; Hornung, Alfred,; Horáková, Martina,; Jost-Rösch, Nicole,; Katschthaler, Karl,; Kirchhoff, Christine,; Klaeger, Florian,; Klepper, Martin,; Kreknin, Innokentij,; Kremer, Roman B.,; Kuhn, Thomas K.,; Kühler, Michael,; Lahusen, Christiane,; Linke, Gabriele,; Löschnigg, Martin,; Malinar, Angelika,; Mansfield, Stephen,; Markowitsch, Hans J.,; Martin, Erik,; Missinne, Lut,; Moser, Christian,; Möllendorff, Peter von,; Möller, Melanie,; Mücke, Ulrich,; Pholsena, Vatthana,; Pisani, Salvatore,; Pohl, Rüdiger F.,; Quante, Michael,; Reed-Danahay, Deborah,; Rippl, Gabriele,; Rosenthal, Gabriele,; Rugg, Linda Haverty,; Rzehak, Kristina,; Sarkowsky, Katja,; Schahadat, Schamma,; Schaser, Angelika,; Schlamelcher, Jens,; Schmitt, Arnaud,; Schneider, Manfred,; Schwalm, Helga,; Siebenmorgen, Katharina,; Sieber, Cornelia,; Staniloiu, Angelica,; Struth, Christiane,; Strätling, Regine,; Thiemann, Anna,; Thomä, Dieter,; Traue, Boris,; Vandevoorde, Hans,; Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina,; Wennerscheid, Sophie,; Westerwelle, Karin,; Wevers, Lydia,; Wiesenfeldt, Christiane,; Árokay, Judit,
• HerausgeberIn: Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 3 volumes
• Language: English
• Series: De Gruyter Handbook
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XL, 2180 p.)

Autobiographical writings have been a major cultural genre from antiquity to the present time. General questions of the literary as, e.g., the relation between literature and reality, truth and fiction, the dependency of author, narrator, and figure, or issues of individual and cultural styles etc., can be studied preeminently in the autobiographical genre. Yet, the tradition of life-writing has, in the course of literary history, developed manifold types and forms. Especially in the globalized age, where the media and other technological / cultural factors contribute to a rapid transformation of lifestyles, autobiographical writing has maintained, even enhanced, its popularity and importance. By conceiving autobiography in a wide sense that includes memoirs, diaries, self-portraits and autofiction as well as media transformations of the genre, this three-volume handbook offers a comprehensive survey of theoretical approaches, systematic aspects, and historical developments in an international and interdisciplinary perspective. While autobiography is usually considered to be a European tradition, special emphasis is placed on the modes of self-representation in non-Western cultures and on inter- and transcultural perspectives of the genre. The individual contributions are closely interconnected by a system of cross-references. The handbook addresses scholars of cultural and literary studies, students as well as non-academic readers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Autobiography/Autofiction Across Disciplines -- 1.1 Anthropology -- 1.2 Brain Research and Neuroscience -- 1.3 Cultural Studies -- 1.4 Deconstruction -- 1.5 Discourse Analysis -- 1.6 Gender Studies -- 1.7 Hermeneutics -- 1.8 History -- 1.9 History of Art -- 1.10 Media Studies -- 1.11 Narratology -- 1.12 Philosophy -- 1.13 Political Science -- 1.14 Postcolonialism -- 1.15 Psychology -- 1.16 Psychoanalysis -- 1.17 Religious Studies -- 1.18 Rhetoric -- 1.19 Social History -- 1.20 Sociology -- 1.21 Structuralism -- 1.22 Theology -- 2.1 Apologia -- 2.2 Authenticity -- 2.3 Autobiographical Pact -- 2.4 Autobiography and the Nation -- 2.5 Autoethnography -- 2.6 Autofiction -- 2.7 Automediality -- 2.8 Ego-documents -- 2.9 Ethics of Autobiography -- 2.10 Ethos and Pathos -- 2.11 Facts and Fiction -- 2.12 Gender -- 2.13 Genealogy -- 2.14 The (Term) ‘I’ -- 2.15 Identity -- 2.16 Individuality -- 2.17 Intentionality -- 2.18 Life and Work -- 2.19 Life Writing -- 2.20 Memory -- 2.21 Mimesis -- 2.22 Minorities -- 2.23 Paratext -- 2.24 Personality -- 2.25 Prosopopoeia -- 2.26 Referentiality -- 2.27 The ‘Self’ -- 2.28 Sincerity -- 2.29 Subjectivity -- 2.30 Time and Space -- 2.31 Topics of Autobiography/Autofiction -- 2.32 Trauma -- 2.33 Truth -- 3.1 Architecture -- 3.2 Autobiographical/Autofictional Comics -- 3.3 Autobiographical/Autofictional Film -- 3.4 Autobiographical Music -- 3.5 Autobiographical Novel -- 3.6 Autobiographical/Autofictional Poetry -- 3.7 Autobiographical Visual Arts, esp. Painting -- 3.8 Autobiography and Drama/Theater -- 3.9 Autobiography -- 3.10 Confessions -- 3.11 Conversations -- 3.12 Curriculum Vitae -- 3.13 Autobiography in/as Dance -- 3.14 Diary -- 3.15 Digital Life Narratives/Digital Selves/ Autobiography on the Internet -- 3.16 Epistolary Autobiography -- 3.17 Epitaph -- 3.18 Essay -- 3.19 Fake Autobiography -- 3.20 Fictional Autobiography -- 3.21 Interview -- 3.22 Letter, E-mail, SMS -- 3.23 Memoirs -- 3.24 Metaautobiography -- 3.25 Oral Forms -- 3.26 Photography -- 3.27 Self-Narration -- 3.28 Self-Portrait -- 3.29 Testimony/Testimonio -- 3.30 Travelogue -- Introduction: Autobiography Across the World, Or, How Not To Be Eurocentric -- 1.1 Antiquity -- 1.2 Middle Ages -- 1.3.1 Autobiographies in the Latin Language (1300–1700) -- 1.3.2 Autobiographies in the Vernacular -- 1.4 Modernity -- 1.5 Postmodernity -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Classical Arabic Autobiography -- 2.3 Modern Autobiography -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Pre-colonial Times -- 3.3 Colonial Times -- 3.4 Post-colonial Times -- 4.1 India -- 4.2 South East Asia: The Case of Laos -- 4.3 Indonesia -- 4.4 China -- 4.5 Japan -- 5.1 Australia -- 5.2 New Zealand -- 6.1 Latin America -- 6.2 North America -- 7. Autobiography in the Globalized World -- Introduction: Exemplary Autobiographical/ Autofictional Texts, Or, How Not To Set Up A Canon -- 1. Isocrates: Περὶ ἀντιδόσεως (353 BCE) [Antidosis] and Lucian: Περὶ τοῦ ἐνυπνίου (2nd Century) [Dream] -- 2. Plato: ἀπολογία (3rd Century BCE) [Apology of Socrates] -- 3. Sima Qian: 報任少卿書 [Letter to Ren An] (93/91 BCE) and Other Autobiographical Writings -- 4. Publius Ovidius Naso: Tristium Libri V (8–12) [“Sorrows”] -- 5. Aurelius Augustinus: Confessiones (397–401) [Confessions] -- 6. Izumi Shikibu: 和泉式部日記 (11th Century) [The Izumi Shikibu Diary] -- 7. Muḥammad al-Ghazālī: المنقذ من الضلال (5th/12th Century) [Deliverance from Error and Attachment to the Lord of Might and Majesty] -- 8. Francesco Petrarca: Secretum [‘My Secret’; ‘Secret Book’] / De secreto conflictu curarum mearum (Mid-14th Century) [On the Secret Struggles of My Mind] -- 9. ‘ Abd al-Raḥmān Ibn Khaldūn: التعريف بابن خلدون (8th/14th Century) [The Autobiography] -- 10. Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur: بابر نامه (First Third of 10th/16th Century until 935/1529) [Baburnama, ‘Babur’s Book’] -- 11. Teresa de Ávila: El Libro de la Vida (1562) [The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa de Jesús] -- 12. Michel de Montaigne: Les Essais (1580, 1588, 1595) [The Essays] -- 13. Francisco Guerrero: El Viage a Hierusalem (1590) [Voyage to Jerusalem] -- 14. Avvakum Petrov: Житие протопопа Аввакума, им самим написанное (17th Century) [Life of Avvakum] -- 15. John Bunyan: Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666) -- 16. Anne Halkett: The Autobiography of Anne, Lady Halkett, 1677–78 (1875) -- 17. Glikl bas Judah Leib: Zikhroynes (1691–1719) [Memoirs] -- 18. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763) -- 19. Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791 sq.) -- 20. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Les Confessions (1782/1789) [The Confessions] -- 21. Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit (1811–1833) [From My Life: Poetry and Truth] -- 22. William Wordsworth: The Prelude (1850) -- 23. Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself (1861) -- 24. Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoj: Детство (1852) [Childhood] -- 25. Ned Kelly: The Jerilderie Letter (1879) -- 26. August Strindberg: Tjänstekvinnans Son. En Själs Utvecklingshistoria (1886) [The Son of a Servant] -- 27. Mark Twain: Autobiography of Mark Twain (1870–1910) -- 28. Franz Kafka: Brief an den Vater (1919) [Letter to His Father] -- 29. Alban Berg: Lyric Suite (1925/1926) -- 30. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: [An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth] -- 31. Walter Benjamin: Berliner Kindheit um Neunzehnhundert (1930s) [Berlin Childhood around 1900] -- 32. Hu Shi: 四十自述 (1933) [An Autobiographical Account at Forty] and 胡適口述自傳 (1981) [The Reminiscences of Dr. Hu Shih] -- 33. Anaïs Nin: The Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931–1974) -- 34. Sachchidanand Hiranand Vatsyayan [“Ajneya”/“Agyeya” (‘Unknowable’)] -- 35. Czesław Miłosz: Rodzinna Europa (1958) [Native Realm] -- 36. Karen Blixen: Out of Africa (1937) -- 37. Michel Leiris: La Règle du Jeu (1948–1976) [The Rules of the Game] -- 38. Albert Memmi: La Statue de Sel (1953) [The Pillar of Salt] -- 39. Hal Porter: The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony: An Australian Autobiography (1963) -- 40. Vladimir Nabokov: Speak, Memory. An Autobiography Revisited (1966) -- 41. Frank Sargeson: Once is Enough (1973) -- 42. Roland Barthes: roland BARTHES par roland barthes (1975) [Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes] -- 43. Imre Kertész: Sorstalanság (1975) [Fateless/Fatelessness] -- 44. María Teresa León: Memoria de la Melancholia (1970) [Memory of Melancholy] -- 45. Wole Soyinka: Ake: The Years of Childhood (1981) -- 46. Jeroen Brouwers: Bezonken Rood (1981) [Sunken Red] -- 47. Michael Ondaatje: Running in the Family (1982) -- 48. Sally Morgan: My Place (1987) -- 49. Serge Doubrovsky: Le Livre Brisé (1989) [The Broken Book] -- 50. Elfriede Jelinek: Ein Sportstück (1998) [Sports Play] -- 51. Najīb Maḥfūẓ: أصداء السيرة الذاتية (Aṣdā’ al-sīra al-dhātiyya) (1994) [Echoes of an Autobiography] -- 52. Walter Kempowski: Das Echolot (1993–2005) [Sonar] -- 53. Gabriel García Márquez: Vivir Para Contarla (2002) [Living to Tell the Tale] -- 54. J.M. Coetzee: Boyhood (1997) and Youth (2002) -- 55. Xavier Le Roy: Product of Circumstances (1998/1999) -- 56. Alison Bechdel: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006) -- 57. Jane Alison: The Sisters Antipodes: A Memoir (2009) -- List of Contributors -- Subject Index -- Name Index -- Abbreviations -- Preface: The Concept of this Handbook -- Frontmatter -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contents