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 andFiction (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 manyof 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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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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“The capacious collection Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction explores a range of biofictions, from early twentieth-century texts, such as Virginia Woolf ’s Flush, to more contemporary twenty-first-century titles. … Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction serves as an invaluable new addition to biofiction scholarship, and will no doubt be much-utilized by scholars and students alike.” (Stephanie Russo, Biography, Vol. 46 (2), 2023)
“The volume as a whole is of great value to scholars and students of biofiction as a genre. The majority of essays also work in isolation for those interested in the authors and historical subjects represented. … this volume paves the way for a more inclusive and flexible understanding of biofiction. As it stands, it represents a welcome addition to life-writing scholarship.” (Bethany Layne, European Journal of Life Writing, Vol. 12, 2023)
“Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction (2024) makes a fine contribution to the Palgrave Studies in Life Writing series. … This book will prove useful to students, especially postgrads, and academics working in English studies, historical fiction, literary studies, life writing (in particular, biography), and women’s studies. … Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction was a fine text … .” (Gay Lynch, Life Writing, February 19, 2024)
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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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