Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

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

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
Release date:	December 2022
First published:	2022
Editors:	Julia Novak • Caitriona Ni Dhuill
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	392
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-109018-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > General Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Promotions
LSN:	3-03-109018-7
Barcode:	9783031090189

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