Search for dissertations about: "Autobiography as Fiction, Fiction as Autobiography"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words Autobiography as Fiction, Fiction as Autobiography.

  2. 1. The written and the unwritten world of Philip Roth : fiction, nonfiction, and borderline aesthetics in the Roth books

    Author : Roger Edholm; Lars-Åke Skalin; Greger Anderson; Magnus Ullén; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philip Roth; Fiction; Nonfiction; Borderline Aesthetics; Narrative Theory; Autobiography; Authorship; Referentiality; Literature; Identity; Counterfacts; Ethics; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature;

    Abstract : This thesis examines five books by the American author Philip Roth commonly referred to as the “Roth Books,” which are The Facts: A Novelist’s Autobiography(1988), Deception (1990), Patrimony: A True Story (1991), Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993), and The Plot Against America (2004). These books, held together by the author’s proper name, are often viewed as texts that conflate fiction and nonfiction or demonstrate the “fictionality” of all factual narrative accounts in compliance with well-known postmodernist and poststructuralist theories. READ MORE

  4. 2. Dressing Up and the Art of Jamaica Kincaid

    Author : Anna Borgström; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jamaica Kincaid; Art; Autobiography; Resistance to Categorization; Dressing Up; Cognizant Readings; Intertexts; Paratexts; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : Whether her work is classified as fiction, biography, garden writing, or sketch, almost all ofJamaica Kincaid’s writing invokes the genre of autobiography. At the same time, she undercutsand complicates autobiographical readings of her work. READ MORE

  5. 3. Apartheid, liberalism, and romance : a critical investigation of the writing of Joy Packer

    Author : John A. Stotesbury; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; South African women’s writing; popular romantic fiction; memoirs; apartheid; colonialism; liberalism; memory; literary amnesia; propaganda; roman a these; race; gender; patriarchy.;

    Abstract : This is the first full-length study of the writing of the South African Joy Packer (1905-1977), whose 17 works of autobiography and romantic fiction were primarily popular. Packer’s writing, which appeared mainly between 1945 and 1977, blends popular narrative with contemporary social and political discourses. READ MORE

  6. 4. Sentiments of Segregation : The Emotional Politics of Apartheid in South Africa, c. 1948-1990

    Author : Jagger Kirkby; Forskarskolan i historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; apartheid; history of emotions; South Africa; race and racism; cultural history; Segregation;

    Abstract : This dissertation studies the relationship between emotions and the everday application of apartheid in South Africa between 1948 and 1990. Histories of apartheid have long been politics-driven, focusing on the rise and fall of the regime with its reception being studied primarily through the lens of the popular struggle that, in part, led to apartheid’s downfall. READ MORE