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Speculative Biography - Experiments, Opportunities and Provocations (Hardcover)
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Speculative Biography - Experiments, Opportunities and Provocations (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Auto/Biography Studies
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While speculation has always been crucial to biography, it has
often been neglected, denied or misunderstood. This edited
collection brings together a group of international biographers to
discuss how, and why, each uses speculation in their work; whether
this is to conceptualise a project in its early stages, work with
scanty or deliberately deceptive sources, or address issues
associated with shy or stubborn subjects. After defining the role
of speculation in biography, the volume offers a series of
work-in-progress case studies that discuss the challenges
biographers encounter and address in their work. In addition to
defining the 'speculative spectrum' within the biographical
endeavour, the collection offers a lexicon of new terms to describe
different types of biographical speculation, and more deeply engage
with the dynamic interplay between research, subjectivity and that
which Natalie Zemon Davis dubbed 'informed imagination'. By mapping
the field of speculative biography, the collection demonstrates
that speculation is not only innate to biographical practice but
also key to rendering the complex mystery of biographical subjects,
be they human, animal or even metaphysical.
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