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Author:   Michael Lackey (University of Minnesota - Morris, MN, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.370kg
ISBN:  

9780367747633

ISBN 10:   0367747634
Pages:   186
Publication Date:   07 July 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Introduction I. The Nineteenth Century Origins 1. The Art of Agential Living 2. Portraits of Whom? II. Literature, Cultural Critique, and Political Liberation 3. Biofiction as Social Critique 4. The Irish, the Unslave Trade, and the Decolonization of the Mind 5. The 1930s and the First Surge in Biofiction III. Literary Debates 6. The Assault on Biofiction 7. The William Styron Controversy 8. Postmodernism’s Historiographic Metafiction or Biofiction’s “Truth” Proposals? 9. John Edgar Wideman on the Ethics of Fictionalizing a Life in Biofiction IV. The Uncanny Power of Biofiction 10. Biofiction as Cultural Intervention: The Case of Sally Hemings 11. The 1990s: The Decade of Biofiction’s Official Legitimization and Dominance 12. The Transformative Powers of Biofiction for Students: A Case Study of David Ebershoff’s The Danish Girla Acknowledgments Introduction I. The Nineteenth Century Origins The Art of Agential Living Portraits of Whom? Figure One Figure Two II. 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 III. 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 IV. 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"

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Michael Lackey is Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Distinguished University Teaching Professor at 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 Fictions and 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.

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