The Changing Ways of Writing and Reading Autobiography and
Autofiction : Self as Performance in Jan Němec’s Ways of
Writing about Love

J 2025

The Changing Ways of Writing and Reading Autobiography and Autofiction : Self as Performance in Jan Němec’s Ways of Writing about Love

FONIOKOVÁ, Zuzana

Základní údaje

Originální název

The Changing Ways of Writing and Reading Autobiography and Autofiction : Self as Performance in Jan Němec’s Ways of Writing about Love

Autoři

FONIOKOVÁ, Zuzana

Vydání

PARTIAL ANSWERS-JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND THE HISTORY OF IDEAS, BALTIMORE, John’s Hopkins University Press, 2025, 1565-3668

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

60205 Literary theory

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 0.200 v roce 2024

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Ano

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

autobiography; autofiction; identity; life narratives; self-performance; Jan Němec; Ways of Writing about Love

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 7. 4. 2026 09:51, Mgr. Ester Gaja Pučálková, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

This article discusses the changing understanding and practice of autofiction in the broader cultural context of the transformations of lived reality, the media landscape, and ways of writing and reading life stories. Originally defined as an autobiographical narrative breaking the conventions of classical autobiography, autofiction and its meaning change as notions of autobiography and the autobiographical loosen. The article suggests that a signaled autofictional intent and deliberate ambiguity of framing are important markers of contemporary autofiction. The second part of the article analyzes the strategies of such signaling in Czech writer Jan Němec’s Ways of Writing about Love (2019). It demonstrates how this work underlines the performative nature of self-representation by commenting on the process of self-narration and self-invention as well as by enacting a patchwork identity through inserting other texts and playful touches into the narrative. By allowing new media to influence the form of the book and by transcending the boundaries of the text to continue his self-performance in other media, Němec probes the possibilities not just of “writing about love” but also of performing the self. The work thus exemplifies autofiction’s tendency to respond to sociocultural developments, including changing patterns of life storytelling.

Návaznosti

GA21-12454S, projekt VaV

Název: Fakta a fikce v životních příbězích: narativní strategie autobiografického psaní

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Fakta a fikce v životních příbězích: narativní strategie autobiografického psaní

Citovat

FONIOKOVÁ, Zuzana. The Changing Ways of Writing and Reading Autobiography and Autofiction : Self as Performance in Jan Němec’s Ways of Writing about Love. PARTIAL ANSWERS-JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND THE HISTORY OF IDEAS. BALTIMORE: John’s Hopkins University Press, 2025, roč. 23, č. 2, s. 249-267. ISSN 1565-3668. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1353/pan.2025.a961657.

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FONIOKOVÁ, Zuzana. The Changing Ways of Writing and Reading Autobiography and Autofiction : Self as Performance in Jan Němec’s Ways of Writing about Love. \textit{PARTIAL ANSWERS-JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND THE HISTORY OF IDEAS}. BALTIMORE: John’s Hopkins University Press, 2025, roč.~23, č.~2, s.~249-267. ISSN~1565-3668. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1353/pan.2025.a961657.

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