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Biofiction : an introduction / Michael Lackey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lackey, Michael, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biographical fiction--History and criticism.
- Biographical fiction.
- Characters and characteristics in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 185 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Michael Lackey is Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Distinguished University Teaching Professorat the University of Minnesota, Morris. As a scholar of twentieth- and twenty-first-century intellectual, political, and literary history, he has authored and edited ten books, mostly about biofiction, including Truthful Fictionsand Conversations with Biographical Novelists, which contain interviews with some of the world's most famous biographical novelists. He has also guest-edited many special issues about biofiction for journals like a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Éire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies, Mississippi Quarterly, and American Book Review.
- Contents:
- The nineteenth century origins. The art of agential living
- Portraits of whom?
- Literature, cultural critique, and political liberation. Biofiction as social critique
- The Irish, the unslave trade, and the decolonization of the mind
- The 1930s and the first surge in biofiction
- Literary debates. The assault on biofiction
- The William Styron controversy
- Postmodernism's historiographic metafiction or biofiction's "truth" proposals?
- John Edgar Wideman on the ethics of fictionalizing a life in biofiction
- The uncanny power of biofiction. Biofiction as cultural intervention : the case of Sally Hemings
- The 1990s : the decade of biofiction's official legitimization and dominance
- The transformative powers of biofiction for students : a case study of David Ebershoff's The Danish girl.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 11, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lackey, Michael. Biofiction
- ISBN:
- 9781003159414
- 1003159419
- 9781000399684
- 1000399680
- 9781000399721
- 1000399729
- Publisher Number:
- 40030669305
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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