Imagining gender in biographical fiction / edited by Julia Novak, Caitríona Ní Dhúill, editors.
Novak, Julia, editor.; Ní Dhúill, Caitríona, editor.
2022
PN3448.B56 I53 2022
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Title Imagining gender in biographical fiction / edited by Julia Novak, Caitríona Ní Dhúill, editors.
ISBN 3031090195 electronic book
9783031090196 (electronic bk.)
3031090187
9783031090189
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09019-6
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-09019-6 doi
Call Number PN3448.B56 I53 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.382
Summary 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).
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Ní Dhúill, Caitríona, editor.
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IMAGINING GENDER IN BIOGRAPHICAL FICTION.
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1. Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction: Introduction
Part I. Recovery, Revision, Ventriloquism: Imagining Historical Women
2. Everything Is Out of Place : Virginia Woolf, Women, and (Meta-)Historical Biofiction
3. Fictional Futures for a Buried Past: Representations of Lucia Joyce
4. Imagining Jiang Qing: The Biographers Truth in Anchee Mins Becoming Madame Mao
Part II. Re-imagining the Early Modern Subject
5. From Betrayed Wife to Betraying Wife: Re-writing Katherine of Aragon as Catalina in Philippa Gregorys The Constant Princess
6. Jean Plaidy and Philippa Gregory Fighting for Gender Equality Through Katherine Parrs Narrative
7. Australian Women Writing Tudor Lives
Part III. Writing the Writer: History, Voyeurism, Victimisation
8. Biofiction, Compulsory Sexuality, and Celibate Modernism in Colm Toibins The Master and David Lodges Author, Author
9. In Poes Shadow: Frances Sargent Osgood
10. Stanisawa Przybyszewska as a Case of Posthumous Victimisation: On the Ethics of Biofiction
Part IV. Creativity and Gender in the Arts and Sciences
11. Re-visiting the Renaissance Virtuosa in Biofiction on Sofonisba Anguissola
12. The Mother of the Theory of Relativity? Re-imagining Mileva Maric in Marie Benedicts The Other Einstein (2016)
Part V. Queering Biofiction
13. Visceral Biofiction: Herculine Barbin, Intersex Embodiment, and the Biological Imaginary in Aaron Appss Dear Herculine
14. A Way Out of the Prison of Gender : Interview with Novelist Patricia Duncker.

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