In Between Worlds : Memory, Belonging And Quest For The Self In Contemporary Black British Women's Autofiction

This book traces the development of autofiction along with the other directions it has led to, such as autoethnography and autotheory, and explores their textual potentialities to reproduce underrepresented realities of multi-ethnicity. This book traces the development of autofiction along with the other directions it has led to, such as autoethnography and autotheory, and explores their textual potentialities to reproduce underrepresented realities of multi-ethnicity. It presents how the hybridity and in-betweenness of these mixed literary novelties mirror the multi-ethnic feeling of being caught between different cultural worlds, and how their ambivalence within literary categorisation provides spaces of inclusion for individuals whose multiple ethnicities transcend the rigid borders of pre-existing racial, national, ethnic and cultural classifications. Despite claiming to focus on authors labelled under "Black British Women", the book shows the ineffectiveness of homogenising categories, yielding implications for the reconsideration of the hegemonic divisions between 'Europeanness' and 'Africanness'. Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Chapter 1 Development of Autofiction as an In- between Genre - Chapter 2 Theoretical Contexts - Chapter 3 Multiethnicity as an In- between Cultural Position - Chapter 4 Charlotte Williams's Sugar and Slate (2002) - Chapter 5 Jackie Kay's Red Dust Road (2010) - Chapter 6 Bernardine Evaristo's Lara (1997/ 2009) - Conclusion - References Ayda Önder holds a PhD in English Literature from Yeditepe University, Turkey. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Istanbul Arel University. Her research interests lie in autofiction, gothic fiction, literary theories, postcolonial literature, and comparative literature.