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@article{1730982, author = {Fonioková, Zuzana}, article_number = {2}, keywords = {self-narration; life writing; autobiographical narrative; Fraser; Isherwood; Grass; Karr}, language = {eng}, issn = {0162-4962}, journal = {Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly}, title = {What’s in an I? : Dissonant and Consonant Self-Narration in Autobiographical Discourse}, url = {https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/bio/}, volume = {43}, year = {2020} }
TY - JOUR ID - 1730982 AU - Fonioková, Zuzana PY - 2020 TI - What’s in an I? : Dissonant and Consonant Self-Narration in Autobiographical Discourse JF - Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly VL - 43 IS - 2 SP - 387-406 EP - 387-406 PB - University of Hawai´i SN - 01624962 KW - self-narration KW - life writing KW - autobiographical narrative KW - Fraser KW - Isherwood KW - Grass KW - Karr UR - https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/bio/ N2 - Combining narratological analysis with autobiography studies, this article looks at examples of focalization strategies in several autobiographical works. It adopts Dorrit Cohn’s distinction between consonant and dissonant self-narration (identification or distance between the narrating-I and the experiencing-I) to explore how authors engage creatively with different positions of the autobiographical “I” and how this engagement contributes to their texts’ aesthetic qualities. Starting from a brief exposition of the role of the narrating-I and the experiencing-I in autobiographical narratives, the article goes on to discuss the juxtaposition of the two selves’ perspectives in Sylvia Fraser’s My Father’s House, which is achieved by means of a dexterous combination of consonant and dissonant self-narration. Examples of dissonant self-narration from Günter Grass’s Peeling the Onion and Christopher Isherwood’s Christopher and His Kind and of consonant self-narration from Mary Karr’s memoir trilogy (The Liars’ Club, Cherry, and Lit) will then demonstrate how self-dissonance may help convey a work’s meta-autobiographical message, while self-consonance seems to contribute to readers’ immersion in the narrative. ER -
FONIOKOVÁ, Zuzana. What’s in an I? : Dissonant and Consonant Self-Narration in Autobiographical Discourse. \textit{Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly}. University of Hawai´i, 2020, roč.~43, č.~2, s.~387-406. ISSN~0162-4962.
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