{"product_id":"the-story-of-me-contemporary-american-autofiction-hardback-9781496207579","title":"The Story of \"Me\"; Contemporary American Autofiction (Hardback) 9781496207579","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Story of \"Me\"\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eContemporary American Autofiction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMarjorie Worthington (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496207579\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 November 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e234 pages, 1 appendix, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.518 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“Consistently intriguing and elegantly constructed. \u003ci\u003eThe Story of ‘Me’\u003c\/i\u003e should find an appreciative audience, as it highlights not only the existence of this under-remarked-upon genre but also the enormous explanatory power of that genre for thinking through the pressures and issues that postwar literature confronted. The opening chapter is particularly compelling, as it traces how we might see the rise of autofiction as a reaction to a supposed crisis of American masculinity.”-Daniel Grausam, associate professor of English studies at Durham University and author of \u003ci\u003eOn Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“An important and timely contribution. The level of scholarship that has gone into \u003ci\u003eThe Story of ‘Me’\u003c\/i\u003e is impressive: discussions are stuffed full of relevant references while remaining highly readable and coherent. The author’s grasp of the French context, relevant literary theory, and the American literary landscape is really admirable.”-Elizabeth H. Jones, joint academic director of the School of Arts and lecturer in French studies at the University of Leicester and author of \u003ci\u003eSpaces of Belonging: Home, Culture, and Identity in Twentieth-Century French Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAutofiction, or works in which the eponymous author appears as a fictionalized character, represents a significant trend in postwar American literature, when it proliferated to become a kind of postmodern clichÉ. \u003ci\u003eThe Story of “Me”\u003c\/i\u003e charts the history and development of this genre, analyzing its narratological effects and discussing its cultural implications. By tracing autofiction’s conceptual issues through case studies and an array of texts, Marjorie Worthington sheds light on a number of issues for postwar American writing: the maleness of the postmodern canon-and anxieties created by the supposed waning of male privilege-the relationship between celebrity and authorship, the influence of theory, the angst stemming from claims of the “death of the author,” and the rise of memoir culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Worthington constructs and contextualizes a bridge between the French literary context, from which the term originated, and the rise of autofiction among various American literary movements, from modernism to New Criticism to New Journalism. \u003ci\u003eThe Story of “Me” \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates that the burgeoning of autofiction serves as a barometer of American literature, from modernist authorial effacement to postmodern literary self-consciousness.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681229467928,"sku":"9781496207579","price":33.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-story-of-me-contemporary-american-autofiction-hardback-9781496207579","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}