@article{1451908,
      recid = {1451908},
      author = {Novak, Julia, and Ní Dhúill, Caitríona,},
      title = {Imagining gender in biographical fiction /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction addresses the  current boom in biographical fictions across the globe,  examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past  become re-imagined as gendered narratives in fiction. It  addresses questions of gender in a sustained and systematic  manner that is sensitive to cultural and historical  differences in both raw material and fictional reworking.  It draws on theories of biofiction and historical fiction,  life-writing studies, feminist criticism, queer feminist  readings, postcolonial studies, feminist art history, and  trans studies. Attentive to various approaches to  fictionalisation that reclaim, appropriate or re-invent  their raw material, the volume assesses the critical,  revisionist and deconstructive potential of biographical  fictions while acknowledging the effects of cliche, gender  norms and established narratives in many of the texts under  investigation. The introduction of this book is available  open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com  Caitriona Ni Dhuill is Professor in German at University  College Cork, Ireland. She is the author of Metabiography:  Reflecting on Biography (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and Sex  in Imagined Spaces: Gender and Utopia from More to Bloch  (2010). She is co-editor of the journal Austrian Studies,  and guest co-editor of a double special issue of Poetics  Today (2016) on negative futures. She has published  numerous articles and book chapters on gender theory,  utopian theory, modernist literature and life writing.  Julia Novak is an Elise Richter Research Fellow (Austrian  Science Fund) at the Department of English, University of  Salzburg, Austria, and an editor of the European Journal of  Life Writing. She has published two monographs: a book on  reading groups, Gemeinsam Lesen (2007) and another titled  Live Poetry: An Integrated Approach to Poetry in  Performance (2011). She also co-edited the volume  Experiments in Life Writing: Intersections of  Auto/Biography and Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1451908},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09019-6},
}