U. S. Fiction in the Age of Authenticity : Earnestness and Digital Epitexts in Leilani's Luster
Pignagnoli, Virginia (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Imprint:	University of Milan, 2022
Description:	11 pàg.
Abstract:	This essay aims to explore the interrelation of the widespread use of digital epitextual material and the common practice, in post-postmodern U. S. fiction, to employ characters and character-narrators that share some biographical details with their authors. Specifically, this essay attends to narrative communication when an autobiographical connection between authors and characters is established not textually, but paratextually, through digital epitexts to be found, for instance, on authors' social media profiles. Through the analysis of Raven Leilani's Luster (2020), I will show how digital epitexts acquire a central role for contemporary narrative dynamics: it is through them that many novels realize the author-character connection providing fiction with a layer of alleged authenticity meant to reinforce the post-postmodern tendency to earnestly engage with ethical and political issues.
Grants:	Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación IJC2018-035765-I
Rights:	Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original.
Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Post-postmodernist Fiction ; Authenticity ; Co-construction ; Digital Epitexts ; Literature and Social Media ; Zadie Smith ; Raven Leilani
Published in:	Enthymema, Num 30 (2022) , p. 41-51, ISSN 2037-2426

DOI: 10.54103/2037-2426/19549

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