Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 392 Seiten)
Ausgabe:
Corrected publication
ISBN:
9783031090196
Serie:
Palgrave studies in life writing
Inhalt:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction: Introduction -- Biography, History, Fiction: Stories of Gender and Limits of Genre -- Gender, Fame, and Agency in Biofiction -- Making Gender Intelligible: Biofiction, Exemplarity, and Narrative Identity -- The Ethics of Biographical Fiction -- The Chapters in This Book -- References -- Part I: Recovery, Revision, Ventriloquism: Imagining Historical Women -- Chapter 2: "Everything Is Out of Place": Virginia Woolf, Women, and (Meta-)Historical Biofiction -- "About the Dead": Theorising Historical Biofictions -- Orlando and Flush as (Meta-)Historical Biofictions -- "Sixty Years Since": Woolf's "Bogey"? -- References -- Chapter 3: Fictional Futures for a Buried Past: Representations of Lucia Joyce -- Introduction: Confronting a "Constructed Silence"1 -- "Missed Understandings"3 (FW, 175.27): Lucia Joyce in Others' Biographies -- Making Sense: The Battle for Lucia -- Lucia Revived: Biofiction's Forms of Futurity -- Lucia Recovered: Other Futures in Works of Cinema -- Conclusion: Fictional Lucia-Caveats and Possibilities -- References -- Chapter 4: Imagining Jiang Qing: The Biographer's Truth in Anchee Min's Becoming Madame Mao -- Introduction -- Postmodernism and the Genre of Biofiction -- Defining the Frame: Official Historiography on Jiang Qing -- "Let Me Tell You Stories of My Life": Deconstruction of Ideological Authoritarianism in Becoming Madame Mao -- "Real-Life Drama Is Better than Any Playwright's Imagination": A Metabiographical Reading of Becoming Madame Mao -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Re-imagining the Early Modern Subject -- Chapter 5: From Betrayed Wife to Betraying Wife: Re-writing Katherine of Aragon as Catalina in Philippa Gregory's The Constant Princess -- References.
Anmerkung:
"... the "Herstory Re-Imagined" conference at the Centre for Life Writing Research at King's College London in December 2019" - Seite v
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783031090189
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe "Herstory Re-imagined" Conference (2019 : London) Imagining gender in biographical fiction Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022 ISBN 9783031090189
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Konferenzschrift
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