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Diegetic Biographism: Metanarrative Commentary and Referential Play Producing a Rhetoric of Authenticity in Three Books by Annie Ernaux
University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0643-0549
2017 (English)In: Enthymema, E-ISSN 2037-2426, Vol. 19, p. 222-234Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

After publishing three relatively unnoticed novels, French writer Annie Ernaux stopped labeling her books as novels and adopted a documentary and autobiographical rhetoric. After this autobiographical turn, Ernaux won prestigious prizes and reached a wider audience. This article is an attempt to map out the narrative devices that instigated the impression of urgency, authenticity, and biographical referentiality that the critics praised. Positioning Ernaux’s autobiographical project in relation to the concept of performative biographism, the neologism «diegetic biographism» is proposed for her systematic metanarrative commentary and referential play. Increased reader engagement is thus regarded as a function of Ernaux’s anchoring her narration in an ostensibly biographical reference world.

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Milano: Universita degli Studi di Milano , 2017. Vol. 19, p. 222-234
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Ernaux, biography, autobiography, authenticity
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-90124DOI: 10.13130/2037-2426/8429OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-90124DiVA, id: diva2:1533943
Available from: 2021-03-04 Created: 2021-03-04 Last updated: 2023-12-21Bibliographically approved

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