autofiction
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French autofiction, blend of autobiography + fiction.
Noun
autofiction (countable and uncountable, plural autofictions)
- A blend of autobiography and fiction; faction.
- Synonym: faction
- 2019, Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, editor, Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 245:
- On the other hand, autofiction has afforded many writers a means to deal with the self in a way that straddles the genres of classic literature and goes beyond its culturally determined norms. Autofiction reveals existential motives for writing, raising them to the status of components in the autobiographical debate.
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Further reading
- autofiction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
Blend of autobiographie + fiction.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o.tɔ.fik.sjɔ̃/, /ɔ.tɔ.fik.sjɔ̃/
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Further reading
- “autofiction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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