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DIACONU, Diana. Autofiction: Mock Theory or Disfigurement of a Genre. La Palabra [online]. 2017, n.30, pp.35-52. ISSN 0121-8530.  https://doi.org/10.19053/01218530.n30.2017.6964.

The aim of this contribution is to provide a critical overview of the current state of reflection on autofiction in Hispanic America. With this purpose I locate and analyze the main clichés in theoretical and critical proposals about autofiction today, attempting to demonstrate the ways in which they distort the current landscape of autofictional theory, still under construction. The task of censoring the clichés of criticism implies analyzing erroneous readings which tend to blur fundamental statements about the nature of autofiction, while rescuing the essential meanings that have been neglected or mystified. Finally, I point out some future challenges for criticism, based on unexplored or prematurely abandoned directions which I consider to be valuable for a theory of autofiction. To recover the sociocultural perspective, which inquires into the meaning of the genre, will also make it possible to analyze the particularities of the genre in Latin America; an urgent and crucial task for contemporary theory and literary criticism.

Palavras-chave : Autofiction; Hispanic American contemporary narrative; literary theory and criticism, current debate.

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