In the past thirty years, autofiction has been at the centre of many literary studies (Alberca 2005(Alberca /6, 2007Colonna 1989Colonna , 2004Gasparini 2004;Genette 1982)

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According to the 2014 joint report drafted by the Quality Assurance Agency and Higher Education Academy (QAA/HEA), universities have a key role to play in the development of sustainability literate graduates who can contribute to an environmentally responsible society. In this paper, the authors aim to assess language students' understanding of sustainable development (SD) issues.

In the past thirty years, autofiction has been at the centre of many literary studies (Alberca 2005(Alberca /6, 2007Colonna 1989Colonna , 2004Gasparini 2004;Genette 1982), although only recently in Hispanic literary studies. Despite its many common characteristics with self-translation, no interdisciplinary perspective has ever been offered by academic researchers in Literary nor in Translation Studies. This article analyses how the Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas uses specific methods inherent to autofiction, such as nominal and personal identity exploitation, among others, to translate himself metaphorically into his novel El color del verano [The Colour of Summer]. Analysing this novel by drawing on the theory of selftranslation sheds light on the intrinsic and extraneous motives behind the writer's decision to use this specific literary genre, as well as the benefits presented to the reader who gains access to the 'interliminal space' of the writer's work as a whole.

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