Autofiction serves as the self-theorizing vanguard of first-person literary circulation.

Evidence

In this context, autofiction functions as the precocious autotheory of contemporary literary circulation. Elevation of voice, authentication of the real, and repudiation of fictionality launder writing out of its abstractions, and in to flowing voice. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 126

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the aesthetic features (‘elevation of voice, authentication of the real, repudiation of fictionality’) that group under immediacy — exactly what the reader needs to identify the style in works.