Autosociobiography: A Literary Phenomenon and Its Global Entanglements

Johanna Bundschuh-van Duikeren / Marie Jacquier / Peter Löffelbein (Eds.)

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Autosociobiography, a term coined by nobel-prize winner Annie Ernaux, is recognized as a productive literary phenomenon at the intersection of literary representation, social analysis and political commentary. The contributors to this volume trace the global entanglements of autosociobiographical texts, especially the historical, social and transcultural dynamics they discuss, represent and perform. They critically engage with the question of how to expand the scope of autosociobiography beyond its current corpus and class narratives to include other forms of social exclusion and stratification.

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Overview Chapters

    Frontmatter

    Contents

    On the Globality of Autosociobiography

    Thing, or Not a Thing?

    Towards a Theory of Minor Subjectivation

    Towards an Intersectional Autosociobiography

    Reading across Borders

    Reversing Class Defection

    Autosociobiography and the Temporalities of Class

    Writing the (Communal) Self in Spanish Contemporary Fiction

    A Japanese Pioneer of Autosociobiography?

    On the Margin of Literature

    Autosociobiographies as a Way of Writing Social Life

    List of contributors

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3 March 2025, 252 pages

ISBN: 978-3-8376-7258-9

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Open Access

https://www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-7258-9/autosociobiography

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