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Biofictional Histories, Mutations and Forms (Paperback)
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Biofictional Histories, Mutations and Forms (Paperback)
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Biofiction, defined as literature that names its protagonist after
an actual historical figure, first became popular in the 1930s, but
over the last forty years it has become a dominant literary form.
Prominent writers such as J.M. Coetzee, Joyce Carol Oates, Russell
Banks, Julia Alvarez, Peter Carey, Hilary Mantel, Colm Toibin, Anne
Enright, Colum McCann, and Michael Cunningham have authored
spectacular biographical novels which have won some of the world's
most prestigious awards for fiction. However, in spite of the
prominence of these authors, works, and awards, there has been
considerable confusion about the nature of biofiction. This
collection of process pieces and academic essays from authors and
scholars of biofiction defines the nature of the aesthetic form,
clarifies why it has come into being, specifies what it is uniquely
capable of signifying, illustrates how it pictures the historical
and critiques the political, and suggests potential directions for
future studies. This book was originally published as a special
issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
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