ABSTRACT

This essay explores the reframing of the fiction/nonfiction distinction in light of the changing cultural dominant in the literary period succeeding postmodernism. It investigates the connection between sincerity, intersubjectivity and the breaking down of the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction in hybrid-genre narratives such as memoirs and autofictional novels. It then focuses on the link between these literary narratives and digital media presenting a study of social media platform Instagram as a (possible) prolific area of an emergent post-postmodernism. This exploration is further illustrated through the rhetorical analysis of Michael Chabon’s Instagram feed. Finally, this essay calls attention to how the blurring of the fiction/nonfiction distinction is becoming a technique employed to foreground issues of sincerity and intersubjective author-audience communication rather than of postmodern ontology.

摘要

鉴于后现代主义在文学时期的文化主导地位的变化，本文探讨了小说/非小说的区别的重新构架。它研究了回忆录和自传小说等混合体叙事中的诚意，主体间性与小说与非小说之间界限的打破。然后，它着重于这些文学叙事与数字媒体之间的联系，从而提出了对社交媒体平台Instagram的研究，认为Instagram是新兴的后后现代主义的（可能）多产领域。通过迈克尔·夏邦（Michael Chabon）的Instagram feed的修辞分析进一步说明了这种探索。最后，