The Impact of Interactivity on Truth Claims in Life Stories Chew, Evelyn Mitchell, Alex article article article Text https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:468-20151117-112401-5 https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/receive/ https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/receive/duepublico_mods_00000153 doc-type:article ScholarlyArticle ddc:800 0820 Allgemeine und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft Fakultät für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften » DIEGESIS » Jg. 4 (2015) H. 2 Autobiographies, biographies, and documentary life stories all claim to tell a ‘true life story’. Yet each life story genre highlights different aspects of the truth. In autobiography, the personal subjective truth of self-identity is foregrounded. In biography, it is the seemingly objective truth about someone’s life asserted by another person, whose mediation introduces an element of subjectivity. In a documentary life story testimonial, the credibility of the objective truth presented is of utmost importance, but so is the subjective life experience that undergirds it. In this article we ask: How is interactivity exploited to construct the truth claims in interactive life stories across genres? By comparing three interactive nonfiction life stories – an autobiography, Fitting the Pattern (Wilks 2008), the biographical docugame The Cat and the Coup (Brinson / ValaNejad 2011), and the documentary Alma (Fougère / Dewever-Plana 2012) –, we explore how the aspects of truth most relevant to each life story genre are foregrounded using interactivity. deu Diegesis -- 2195-2116 public https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess