Literature · Modern & Contemporary Literature
A topic within Modern & Contemporary Literature, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Literature.
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Annie Ernaux
Argues that writing her own working-class life in unadorned prose is not memoir for its own sake but a political act, since making one buried, shamed experience visible breaks the isolation that keeps a whole class and sex from recognising its own domination.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Hywel Dix
Argues that autofiction, the term Serge Doubrovsky coined in 1977 for writing that will not settle into either autobiography or the novel, has been systematically underrated next to structuralism and deconstruction as a strand of post-1968 French theory, even as participatory and commemorative culture have since made its blurring of author and character newly relevant.
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