Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction by Novak, Julia

Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031090189)

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Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction by Novak, Julia

Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction

$139.99
Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction by Novak, Julia

Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction

$139.99
Format: Hardcover
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This volume 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. Building on this research, this book is the first to address questions of gender in a sustained and systematic manner that is also sensitive to cultural and historical differences in both raw material and fictional reworking. It develops a critical lens through which to approach biofictions as 'fictions of gender', drawing 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 cliché, gender norms and established narratives in many of the texts under investigation.
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Author: Julia Novak
ISBN-10: 3031090187
ISBN-13: 9783031090189
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/16/2022
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.94d
By Julia Novak
By Julia Novak
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Caitríona Ní Dhúill 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 holds a tenure-track professorship for Anglophone Literature and Mediality at the University of Vienna. Her work on life writing and biofiction has appeared in journals such as Biography; Contemporary Women's Writing; a/b: Auto/Biography Studies; Life Writing; and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. She has co-edited a special issue on "Women's Lives on Screen" for the European Journal of Life Writing (2021), of which she is an editor, as well as Experiments in Life Writing: Intersections of Auto/Biography and Fiction (Palgrave 2017); Life Writing and Celebrity (Routledge 2020); and the inaugural issue of the Journal of Historical Fictions (2017).

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