Autofiction, Emotions, and Humour

Alexandra Effe is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is the author of J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression (2017) and co-editor of The Autofictional (2022). She has published articles in the Journal for Narrative Theory, Modern Fiction Studies, and Journal of Postcolonial Writing.Arnaud Schmitt is a Professor at the University of Bordeaux, France. His field of research is American literature, and he has also worked extensively on the concepts of autofiction and self-narration. He is the author, among others, of The Phenomenology of Autobiography: Making it Real (2017) and the forthcoming The Photographer as Autobiographer (2022).

• 1. Autofiction, Emotions, and Humour: A Playfully Serious Affective Mode 2. Avatars as the Raison d’Être of Autofiction 3. The Bronx in Short Trousers: Jerome Charyn’s Mischievous Childhood Recollections in The Dark Lady from Belorusse 4. The Ridiculous Legend of El Gran Vázquez: Self-deprecation and Picaresque in the Autofictional Comics by Vázquez 5. A Trickster’s Tale: Autofictional Humour in Günter Grass’s Beim Häuten der Zwiebel 6. Gender Tensions, Taboos and Textual Acts in Melina Rorke’s Autofiction 7. Resistance and Desire: Autofictional Satire and Intersubjectivity in Samuel Shem’s The House of God 8. Autofiction and Testimony in Vigdis Hjorth’s Will and Testament 9. Uncovering the Unwritten: A Paratextual Analysis of Autofiction 10. Archival Autofiction in Post-Dictatorship Argentina