Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction
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“This absorbing book makes a rich intervention into historical fi ction, life-writing, and feminist and queer cultural history.” —Ann Heilmann, author of Neo-Victorian Biographilia and James Miranda Barry: A Study in Transgender and Transgenre (2018)
“A fascinating exploration of the intimate interaction of gendered history and biographical fi ction [...] intelligently and incisively interrogates the deliberate use of fi ction to recentre marginalized female historical fi gures.” —Farah Mendlesohn, author of Creating Memory: Historical Fiction and the English Civil Wars (2022)
Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction 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. It addresses questions of gender in a sustained and systematic manner that is sensitive to cultural and historical differences in both raw material and fictional reworking. It draws 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 cliché, 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
Caitríona Ní Dhúill is Professor in German at University College Cork, Ireland. She is the author of Metabiography: Reflecting on Biography (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and Sex in Imagined Spaces: Gender and Utopia from More to Bloch (2010). She is co-editor of the journal Austrian Studies, and guest co-editor of a double special issue of Poetics Today (2016) on negative futures. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on gender theory, utopian theory, modernist literature and life writing.
Julia Novak is an Elise Richter Research Fellow (Austrian Science Fund) at the Department of English, University of Salzburg, Austria, and an editor of the European Journal of Life Writing. She has published two monographs: a book on reading groups, Gemeinsam Lesen (2007) and another titled Live Poetry: An Integrated Approach to Poetry in Performance (2011). She also co-edited the volume Experiments in Life Writing: Intersections of Auto/Biography and Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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 cliché, 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
Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
First in-depth volume to explore questions of gender in relation to biofiction
Draws on a range of theories from biofiction to historical fiction, (queer) feminist readings to postcolonial studies
Investigates how biographical fictions reflect and rewrite narratives and tropes of gender
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Julia Novak
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Biofiction Historical fiction Trans studies Biography Gender norms Authenticity Non-binary Reception studies Life Writing Literature and Postcolonial Studies Literature, Gender and Sexuality
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“This volume provides new insights into gender issues in very diverse texts from the field of biographical fiction and establishes intriguing links between gender and genre, besides uncovering the gender bias of traditional biography. The wide range of topics with different theoretical approaches not only mirrors the complexity and broadness of gender issues related to biofiction but also shows the necessity of bringing together research on this topic in one volume. Its contributors come from different countries and research communities, which is an additional asset in providing necessary interdisciplinary perspectives on biographical fiction.” (Franziska Gygax, Professor Emerita of Anglophone Linguistics and Literary Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland)
“A fascinating exploration of the intimate interaction of gendered history and biographical fiction. Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction ... intelligently and incisively interrogates the deliberate use of fiction to recentre marginalised female historical figures.” (Farah Mendlesohn, author of Creating Memory: Historical Fiction and the English Civil Wars (2022) and Founder of the Historical Fiction Research Network, UK)
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