Fact and Fiction in Autoconfession: A Theoretical Confrontation

Authors

  • Agron Y. Gashi Faculty of Philology, University of Prishtina, George Bush St., No.31, 10000 Prishtina, Kosovo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36941/jesr-2021-0132

Keywords:

fact, fiction, autofiction, fiction and nonfiction, phantasmatic and autobiographical pact, autobiographical prose

Abstract


The formulation of the topic fact and fiction in auto-confession is a result of earlier research in which the greatest theoretical confrontation takes place in the area of autobiographical prose. This paper investigates and explores issues with which contemporary poetics is faced regarding the concepts in question, especially when they coexist within a work concerned either with genre codification or with undefined status (i.e. hybrid genre). Such discussions are often accompanied by great dilemmas on whether auto-confessional texts such as autobiography or autobiographical prose should be considered fact or fiction. Being a fierce confrontation, especially for a genre that is considered a compromising genre in which the facts are weaved according to the fictional practice, this paper proposes that a double reading (fact-fiction) will highlight issues that are essential to interpret and decode a text of autoconfessional premises and, beyond that, a codification of the genre when dilemmas grow and become even larger: in fiction, nonfiction, novel, autobiographical novel, autobiography, etc.

 

Received: 27 January 2021 / Accepted: 2 September 2021 / Published: 5 November 2021

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Published

2021-11-05

How to Cite

Fact and Fiction in Autoconfession: A Theoretical Confrontation. (2021). Journal of Educational and Social Research, 11(6), 105. https://doi.org/10.36941/jesr-2021-0132