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 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
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