Knowledge Commons | Autofiction | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/autofiction/ Activity feed for the group, Autofiction. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:30:29 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 0312386d0fa0a86d9751c73289b87fb2 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum Autofiction https://hcommons.org/groups/autofiction/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-4/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:30:14 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> 3c1aa88b16822d0b7a1d1e354ff34ccb Irina Schulzki deposited Психопоэтика меланхолии в романе Михаила Шишкина “Записки Ларионова” [Psychopoetics of Melancholy in Mikhail Shishkin’s Novel ‘Notes of Larionov’] in the group Autofiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782253/ Mon, 23 May 2022 02:23:40 -0400 Сommenting on "Notes of Larionov", Mikhail Shishkin defined his own authorial role in it as follows: «A novel is a means of finding the way to that very primordial love. The author for the characters is similar to God». One can extrapolate this by saying that the author is not only and not as much God to the fictional characters as a ps…[Read more]

]]> 0 90d35782a306270f7b36250c605e71e4 Mateus Yuri Passos deposited Voices in War Times: Tracing the Roots of Lusophone Literary Journalism in the group Autofiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1718504/ Wed, 02 Dec 2020 02:24:34 -0500 This essay takes a look at the works of four early literary journalists— Portuguese reporters Hermano Neves and Mário Neves, and Brazilian writers Visconde de Taunay and Euclides da Cunha—to trace the foundations of lusophone literary journalism, that is, reportage written primarily in the Portuguese language. Among the findings are that war repo…[Read more]

]]> 0 2f07444634d5d5a85298a4b6152fc6ad Mateus Yuri Passos deposited Glimpses of a New York Emerging from Silence: Joseph Mitchell’s Journalistic Memorial Essay in the group Autofiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1718495/ Wed, 02 Dec 2020 02:24:28 -0500 This paper discusses ‘Street Life’, ‘Days in the Branch’ and ‘A Place of Pasts’, excerpts fragments from The New Yorker reporter Joseph Mitchell’s unfinished memoir book he started writing during his famous period of silence from 1964 to 1994. Within the scope of Mitchell’s writings, this group of texts may be considered as part of his fourth peri…[Read more]

]]> 0 d0c398ab6323bdb8df0cedb5aa439a36 Irina Schulzki deposited Жестовость в романе Михаила Шишкина / Gesture in Mikhail Shishkin's Novel "Taking Izmail" in the group Autofiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1665793/ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 16:38:55 -0400 The article focuses on aspects of gesture in Mikhail Shishkin’s novel "Taking Izmail" ("Vziatie Izmaila", 1999). The concept of gesture is frequently evoked in search of an alternative to speaking and rational meaning, since gesture, as a figure of muteness by itself, signals the nonsensical in the text and its production problematising the very p…[Read more]

]]> 0 f8833270a96a3f171afb78e3be5a4acf Ben Streeter deposited Karl Ove Knausgaard Literary Celebrity in the group Autofiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622465/ Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:25:21 -0400 To make sense of Knausgaard’s meteoric rise, we need to see that his prestige preceded his consecration in the Anglophone literary press.

]]> 0 d2752513da356e57784af6fcca174f9a Ben Streeter deposited My Struggle: Book Six in the group Autofiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1617711/ Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:25:22 -0400 Karl Ove Knausgaard has been crowned “the ideal writer of the present moment.”

]]> 0 3cce28dcd67a18a8b768faaa451933f3 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic What’s your story? Calling all Autofiction bloggers in the discussion Autofiction https://hcommons.org/groups/autofiction/forum/topic/whats-your-story-calling-all-autofiction-bloggers/ Tue, 24 Jul 2018 11:14:36 -0400 Whether you have reflections, thoughts on the field of autofiction as a whole, or a compelling narrative that is crying out for an audience, we want to hear from you. We want to use our social media platforms to encourage discussion within the broad community of autofiction.Part of encouraging that discussion is asking you all to contribute your…[Read more]

]]> 03d19dd3520868b5f1393f8c6559c867 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Help us Brainstorm in the discussion Autofiction https://hcommons.org/groups/autofiction/forum/topic/help-us-brainstorm/ Fri, 20 Jul 2018 10:16:33 -0400 Help us brainstorm -

As we at the Auto/Fiction continue to expand our online initiatives, we’d like to hear from you about how we can best use this platform. Do you have ideas for posts relevant to the autofiction community and discipline? Who should we talk to? Do you want to guest post for us? Let us know!

1- What pressing issues in the f…[Read more]

]]> a2316936f989f26ad46bfadc76e92af4 Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Persian Autobiography Syllabus in the group Autofiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1604968/ Sat, 31 Mar 2018 04:24:40 -0400 This course covers autobiographical writings in Persian from premodern times to contemporary Iran. It reflects the emergence of autobiographical writing in the first days of Islam and an evolving sense of self, identity, and cultural cohesion, and then records transitions within the political/economic power structures in the geographical region.…[Read more]

]]> 0 e16c95bebb8db1d7608b2b4b8e6b4ee5 Daniel Barrow deposited 10:04: Everyday Life and the Novel as Late Capitalist Limit-Form in the group Autofiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1602621/ Tue, 06 Mar 2018 04:12:33 -0500 Given on 23/11/2016 at Historical Materialism conference 2016

]]> 0 117b5ce72a904c3091d6c4b4c31757d0 Shashi Bhusan Nayak created the group Autofiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575281/ Thu, 06 Jul 2017 06:25:36 -0400 0