Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Fiction and Identity -- Vulnerable Fictions: Queer Youth, Storytelling, and Narratives of Victimization (Derritt Mason) -- Authentically Black: Recognition, Authorship, and Fictions of Black Authenticity (Anita Vržina) -- Poets of the Unseen: Musing Through Loss and Displacement in Identity Formation in and Around the Palestine/Israel Conflict (Nabil N. Barham) -- Nation-Building in Nineteenth Century German Literature: The Example of Wilhelm Raabe (Juliane Fiedler) -- 2. Spaces of/in Fiction -- Negotiating Colonial Legacies in Tayeb Salih's "Season of Migration to the North" (Maha El Hissy) -- An Auto-Performative Humor-filled Journey with Jonathan Demme's "Swimming to Cambodia" (1987): Listening to Spalding Gray 'Gesture' his Way through the Cinematic Reality of Intersecting 'Contact Zones' (Bela Gligorova) -- Hybrid Cosmopolitanisms, Heterotopias and The Female American (Kathleen Keirn) -- Restaging the Colonial Encounter: Exhibition Culture and Practices of Fictionalization (Louisa Söllner) -- 3. The Function of Irony in Fiction -- Irony and Sincerity in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Andrew Allen) -- Irony under Control? Kierkegaard's Conception of Controlled Irony as a Critical Theory of Aesthetic Fictionalization (Reinhard Möller) -- Contributors.