Truthful Fictions: Conversations with American Biographical Novelists
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In this new collection of interviews, some of America's most prominent novelists identify the key intellectual developments that led to the rise of the contemporary biographical novel, discuss the kind of historical 'truth' this novel communicates, indicate...
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In this new collection of interviews, some of America's most prominent novelists identify the key intellectual developments that led to the rise of the contemporary biographical novel, discuss the kind of historical 'truth' this novel communicates, indicate why this narrative form is superior to the traditional historical novel, and reflect on the ideas and characters central to their individual works. These interviews do more than just define an innovative genre of contemporary fiction. They provide a precise way of understanding the complicated relationship and pregnant tensions between contextualized thinking and historical representation, interdisciplinary studies and 'truth' production, and fictional reality and factual constructions. By focusing on classical and contemporary debates regarding the nature of the historical novel, this volume charts the forces that gave birth to a new incarnation of this genre.
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ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Rise of the American Biographical Novel, Michael LackeyInterviews:1. Julia Alvarez: Fixed Facts and Creative Freedom in the Biographical Novel2. Russell Banks: The Truth Contract in the Biographical Novel3. Madison Smartt Bell: Big Revolutionary Bangs in the Biographical Novel4. M. Allen Cunningham: Building the Imaginative Record with the Biographical Novel5. Michael Cunningham: The Biographical Novel and the Complexity of Postmodern Interiors6. Anita Diamant: Imagining a Matrilineal History in the Biographical Novel7. Bruce Duffy: In the Fog of the Biographical Novel's History8. Ron Hansen: Sensualizing and Contextualizing Historical 'Truth' in the Biographical Novel9. Sherry Jones: The Art of Claiming Power in the Biographical Novel10. Rebecca Kanner: Feminist Naming in the Biographical Novel11. Kate Moses: Re-Composing a Life in the Biographical Novel12. Joyce Carol Oates: Enhanced Symbolic Interiors in the Biographical Novel13. Lance Olsen: The Biographical Novel's Practice of Not-Knowing14. Jay Parini: Reflections on Biographical Fiction15. Joanna Scott: The Masking Art of the Biographical Novel16. Edmund White: Gay Interiors and the Biographical NovelContributorsBibliographyIndex
Autoren-Porträt von Michael Lackey
Michael Lackey is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, USA. He is the author or editor of eleven books, including of The Modernist God State: A Literary Study of the Nazis' Christian Reich (Bloomsbury, 2012), Truthful Fictions: Conversations with American Biographical Novelists (2014), and The American Biographical Novel (2016).
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- Autor: Michael Lackey
- 2014, 280 Seiten, Maße: 14,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben von Lackey, Michael; Mitarbeit: Alvarez, Julia; Banks, Russell
- Herausgegeben: Michael Lackey
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN-10: 1623568250
- ISBN-13: 9781623568252
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.04.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
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