Autosociobiography

Autosociobiography, a term coined by nobel-prize winner Annie Ernaux, is recognized as a productive literary phenomenon at the intersection of literary representation, social analysis and political commentary. The contributors to this volume trace the global entanglements of autosociobiographical texts, especially the historical, social and transcultural dynamics they discuss, represent and perform. They critically engage with the question of how to expand the scope of autosociobiography beyond its current corpus and class narratives to include other forms of social exclusion and stratification.

Johanna Bundschuh-van Duikeren is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at Freie Universität Berlin and specializes in contemporary literature. Her dissertation analyses gender representations in Dutch postmodernism.

Peter Löffelbein, geb. 1980, ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Englische Philologie der Freien Universität Berlin und forscht im Spannungsfeld von Literatur-, Kultur- und Wissensgeschichte. Seine Arbeiten widmen sich der bleibenden Relevanz historischer Denk- und Darstellungsweisen sowie Aneignungen der Vergangenheit in der modernen englischen Literatur.

Marie Jacquier is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at Freie Universität Berlin