Autofiction, Post-conflict Narratives, and New Memory Cultures
Authors: Dix, H.
Pages: 185-203
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-78440-9_10
Abstract:A reaction against the death of the author provided one context in which autofiction started to develop in the 1970s. The rebuttal of the death of the author has been prominent among postcolonial writers, who, because their voices were historically marginalized until the recent past, are unlikely to accept the tacit silencing that theories of the death of the author might imply. Through a discussion of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s depiction of Nigeria’s Biafran War of 1967–1970 in Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) and Justin Cartwright’s reflection on the massacre of Zulus by Boers in 1838 in Up Against the Night (2015), this chapter shows how they use techniques associated with autofiction to contribute to new forms of memory culture in post-conflict societies.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36517/
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Autofiction, Post-conflict Narratives, and New Memory Cultures
Authors: Dix, H.
Editors: Effe, A. and Lawlor, H.
Pages: 185-203
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 978-3-030-78442-3
Abstract:A reaction against the death of the author provided one context in which autofiction started to develop in the 1970s. The rebuttal of the death of the author has been prominent among postcolonial writers, who, because their voices were historically marginalized until the recent past, are unlikely to accept the tacit silencing that theories of the death of the author might imply. Through a discussion of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s depiction of Nigeria’s Biafran War of 1967–1970 in Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) and Justin Cartwright’s reflection on the massacre of Zulus by Boers in 1838 in Up Against the Night (2015), this chapter shows how they use techniques associated with autofiction to contribute to new forms of memory culture in post-conflict societies.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36517/
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