Autofiction and Self-Portraiture: Jenny Diski and Claude Cahun

Abstract This chapter argues that the contemporary British writer Jenny Diski and Modernist French photographer Claude Cahun are both literary self-portraitists, as this term is defined by Michel Beaujour. evident in their similar approaches to themes of masquerade, narcissism, naming. By reading Diski’s The Dream Mistress Cahun’s Disavowals light Julia Kristeva’s account well theories autofiction self-portraiture, further contends self-portraiture arises from a distinct conception self, psychological origins artistic creativity. On basis, it can be contrasted with autofiction, then seen related each other two poles life-writing.