Vanessa Guignery is Professor of Contemporary English Literature and Postcolonial Literature at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. She is the author of seven academic books, including Julian Barnes from the Margins: Exploring the Writer’s Archives (Bloomsbury, 2020), and co-editor of over 20 monographs and special issues of academic journals.Wojciech Drag is Associate Professor at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. He is the author of two books, including Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature: Art of Crisis (2020). He has co-edited (with Vanessa Guignery) The Poetics of Fragmentation in Contemporary British and American Fiction (2019) and three other volumes.

• I. IntroductionA Cartography of Experimental Life Writing - Wojciech Drag, University of Wroclaw, Poland; Vanessa Guignery, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, FranceII. Genres1. 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 devices9. 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)Index

This is an essential text for anyone interested in experimental forms of life writing, and indeed anyone interested in life writing in its various genres, subgenres, topics and approaches. Thanks to its vast range of case studies, it is also a key text for anyone interested in contemporary writing.

Vanessa Guignery is Professor of Contemporary English Literature and Postcolonial Literature at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. She is the author of seven academic books, including Julian Barnes from the Margins: Exploring the Writer’s Archives (Bloomsbury, 2020), and co-editor of over 20 monographs and special issues of academic journals.Wojciech Drag is Associate Professor at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. He is the author of two books, including Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature: Art of Crisis (2020). He has co-edited (with Vanessa Guignery) The Poetics of Fragmentation in Contemporary British and American Fiction (2019) and three other volumes.

• I. IntroductionA Cartography of Experimental Life Writing - Wojciech Drag, University of Wroclaw, Poland; Vanessa Guignery, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, FranceII. Genres1. 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 devices9. 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)Index

This is an essential text for anyone interested in experimental forms of life writing, and indeed anyone interested in life writing in its various genres, subgenres, topics and approaches. Thanks to its vast range of case studies, it is also a key text for anyone interested in contemporary writing.

Vanessa Guignery is Professor of Contemporary English Literature and Postcolonial Literature at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. She is the author of seven academic books, including Julian Barnes from the Margins: Exploring the Writer’s Archives (Bloomsbury, 2020), and co-editor of over 20 monographs and special issues of academic journals.Wojciech Drag is Associate Professor at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. He is the author of two books, including Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature: Art of Crisis (2020). He has co-edited (with Vanessa Guignery) The Poetics of Fragmentation in Contemporary British and American Fiction (2019) and three other volumes.

• I. IntroductionA Cartography of Experimental Life Writing - Wojciech Drag, University of Wroclaw, Poland; Vanessa Guignery, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, FranceII. Genres1. 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 devices9. 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)Index

This is an essential text for anyone interested in experimental forms of life writing, and indeed anyone interested in life writing in its various genres, subgenres, topics and approaches. Thanks to its vast range of case studies, it is also a key text for anyone interested in contemporary writing.