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Conversations with biographical novelists : truthful fictions across the Globe /
"Interviews with some of the world's most famous biographical novelists that provide new insights into how novelists from China to Morroco to Canada to South Africa deal with the moving boundaries that separate truth, history, and fiction"--
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2019.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Agency Aesthetics of Biofiction in the Age of Postmodern Confusion; Notes; Chapter 1: Positive Contamination in the Biographical Novel; Chapter 2: Reflections on Truth, Veracity, Fictionalization, and Falsification; Chapter 3: Resisting the "Dictatorship of the Present" in the Biographical Novel; Chapter 4: Sally Hemings's Staircase: On Biofiction's Afterlives; Chapter 5: Voicing the Nobodies in the Biographical Novel; Chapter 6: The Biographical Novel as Life Art; Chapter 7: Fictions of Women.
- Chapter 8: The Bionovel as a Hybrid Genre; Chapter 9: Contested Realities in the Biographical Novel; Chapter 10: The Biographical Novelist as Cultural Diagnostician; Chapter 11: Speculative Subjectivities and the Biofictional Surge; Chapter 12: Stitching up the Auto/Biographical Seam; Chapter 13: Complex Psychologies in the Biographical Novel; Chapter 14: The Slant Truth of the Biographical Novel; Chapter 15: Postmodernism and the Biographical Novel; Chapter 16: The Anchored Imagination of the Biographical Novel; Chapter 17: I Believe in the Novel.
- Chapter 18: Biographical Fiction and the Creation of Possible Lives; List of Biofiction Authors; List of Interviewers; Further Reading; Index.