Abstract This chapter explores the shared characteristics, both in terms of thematic concerns and narrative structures strategies, autofiction distinct Japanese form I-novel, shishōsetsu . Focusing on works three contemporary writers, Kanai Mieko, Sagisawa Megumu, Mizumura Minae, it examines strategies applied by female authors to redefine self. The focuses traits autofiction: ambiguity first-p...

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 autofict...

Abstract Autofiction has often been viewed as a hybrid of autobiography and the novel. This chapter argues that new generation writers who emerged from 1990s onward drew heavily on diary instead to develop their own innovative autofictional forms practices. Whereas some critics have argued is fundamentally attached truth resistant fiction, Hervé Guibert’s Voyage avec deux enfants (“Journey with...

Abstract This chapter examines a new form of autofiction that has emerged in the twenty-first century, which proposes to call metanarrative . Such writing displays awareness how our ways narrating lives are socially, culturally, and historically conditioned. The conceptualizes metanarrativity this context as self-reflexive storytelling makes narrative its theme, reflecting not only on process o...

Abstract This chapter explores the relationships between life writing, memory, and photography suggests that incidence of photographs (actual or described) in life-writing texts is most prominent autofictional works which possess generic hybridity often represent identity itself hybrid terms. The images seeing mirroring autobiographical texts, focusing first on transsexual life-writings (includ...