TY - JOUR AU - Munk, Anne Myrup PY - 2013/12/21 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - SELVFED GENRESAMPLING ELLER REFLEKSIV SAMTIDSLITTERATUR? - FIKTIONALISERING AF SELV OG SAMTID I WEIHUIS SHANGHAI BABY JF - K&K - Kultur og Klasse JA - KoK VL - 41 IS - 115 SE - Artikler DO - 10.7146/kok.v41i115.15879 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/kok/article/view/15879 SP - 111-123 AB - SELF-SATISFIED GENRE-SAMPLING OR REFLECTIVE CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE | This article applies the concept of ‘fictionality’ to Chinese Weihui’s self-fashioning in relation to her international bestseller <em>Shanghai Baby</em> (1999). <em>Shanghai Baby</em> is a novel that plays on the author’s own biography yet at the same time many parts of the narrative are clearly fictionalized. The article argues that Weihui’s self-fashioning in the novel and in the media is part of an international tendency in contemporary literature, a tendency towards using fictionality as a means to reinstall literature and the book as a medium in the global media ontology. Fictionality is here understood not as generic, but as a rhetoric strategy that can be deployed in any kind of communication as an intentional mediation of reality. <em>Shanghai Baby</em> is in many ways a popular multimedia phenomenon that instantly made Weihui a celebrity and spawned a number of internet-based rip offs. But it is also an example of how to understand fictionality in contemporary culture in the context of a highly hybrid, mediatized and globalized age. ER -