CFP: Autofiction in the Age of the Self(ie)

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Call for papers: Autofiction in the Age of the Self(ie)
Special Issue of *English Studies in Canada*

Deadline for abstracts: January 15, 2020
Deadline for final essays (6000-9000 words): August 15, 2020
Submit to: [email protected]

If the late nineties and early oughts witnessed what Leigh Gilmore has
termed a =E2=80=98memoir boom=E2=80=99, the intervening years have seen the=
 rise of a new
genre: autofiction. Coined by Serge Doubrovsky in 1977 and initially
associated with French writers, the term=E2=80=94and the self-fictionalizin=
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practices it designates=E2=80=94have exploded into the international mainst=
ream.

Although there is no critical consensus about what constitutes this
genre--or whether it should even be*considered* a distinct genre--examples
of works that blur the line between autobiography and fiction have
increased wildly over the past several decades in the US, Canada,
Scandinavia, Germany, and elsewhere. Both the corpus and the conversation
are broadening to encompass a range of texts and approaches by writers
whose work falls between and beyond traditional publishing industry
categories such as autobiography, memoir, confession, essay, and fiction.
Some scholars are using this lens to trace lineages with earlier writers
and genres such as the roman-=C3=A0-clef.

Autofiction has been touted by some as a productive response to the
commodification, digitization, and proliferation of the self in a
contemporary culture that has called the very nature of =E2=80=98truth=E2=
=80=99 and =E2=80=98fact=E2=80=99
into question. Others =E2=80=93 particularly racialized writers and women=
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rejected the label, arguing that it overvalues or mischaracterizes the
autobiographical dimension of their writing, further entrenching pernicious
stereotypes. Is autofiction a reaction *against *the selfie, or simply
another manifestation? Does the label refer to a new form of writing, or is
it just a new way of describing metafictional techniques that have appeared
in literature since *The Canterbury Tales*?

This special issue invites papers that consider these questions or any
aspect of autofiction and its associated genres (autotheory, biofiction,
creative nonfiction, etc.). Authors are welcome to discuss works that have
been translated into English, and are particularly encouraged to focus on
women, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, disabled, and otherwise marginalized writers.

Please submit abstracts of 500 words to Dr. Myra Bloom
[email protected] by January 15, 2020. Final essays (6,000-9,000
words) are due August 15, 2020.

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Myra Bloom
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Glendon College, York University
2275 Bayview Avenue
Toronto,  ON M4N 3M6
Tel: 416-736-2100 (*x88597)*

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