LEADER 04402nam 22005051 450 001 9910793009903321 005 20180823161219.0 010 $a1-5013-4149-9 010 $a1-5013-4147-2 010 $a1-5013-4148-0 024 7 $a10.5040/9781501341496 035 $a(CKB)4100000007010028 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5532058 035 $a(OCoLC)1061128900 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09262340 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007010028 100 $a20181015d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aConversations with biographical novelists $etruthful fictions across the globe /$fedited by Michael Lackey 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (295 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-5013-4146-4 311 $a1-5013-4145-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 267-270) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: the agency aesthetics of biofiction in the age of postmodern confusion / Michael Lackey -- Positive contamination in the biographical novel / Kevin Barry, interviewed by Stuart Kane -- Reflections on truth, veracity, fictionalization, and falsification / Laurent Binet, interviewed by Monica Latham -- Resisting the "Dictatorship of the present" in the biographical novel / Javier Cercas, interviewed by Virginia Rademacher -- Sally Hemings' staircase: on biofiction's afterlives / Barbara Chase-Riboud, interviewed by Melanie Masterton Sherazi -- Voicing the nobodies in the biographical novel / Emma Donoghue, interviewed by Michael Lackey -- The biographical novel as life art / David Ebershoff, interviewed by Michael Lackey -- Fictions of women / Hannah Kent, interviewed by Kelly Gardiner -- The bionovel as a hybrid genre / David Lodge, interviewed by Bethany Layne -- Contested realities in the biographical novel / Colum McCann, interviewed by Michael Lackey -- The biographical novelist as cultural diagnostician / Anchee Min, interviewed by Michael Lackey -- Speculative subjectivities and the biofictional surge / Rosa Montero, interviewed by Virginia Rademacher -- Stitching up the auto/biographical seam / Stephanus Muller, interviewed by Willemien Froneman -- Complex psychologies in the biographical novel / Sabina Murray, interviewed by Michael Lackey -- The slant truth of the biographical novel / Nuala O'Connor, interviewed by Julie A. Eckerle -- Postmodernism and the biographical novel / Susan Sellers, interviewed by Bethany Layne -- The anchored imagination of the biographical novel / Colm To?lbi?n, interviewed by Bethany Layne -- I believe in the novel / Olga Tokarczuk, interviewed by Robert Kusek and Wojciech Szyman?ski -- Biographical fiction and the creation of possible lives / Chika Unigwe, interviewed by Michael Lackey -- List of biofiction authors -- List of interviewers. 330 $a"Interviews with some of the world's most famous biographical novelists that provide new insights into how novelists from China to Morroco to Canada to South Africa deal with the moving boundaries that separate truth, history, and fiction."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 330 $a"How does a writer approach a novel about a real person? In this new collection of interviews, authors such as Emma Donoghue, David Ebershoff, David Lodge, Colum McCann, Colm Ti?bn?, and Olga Tokarczuk sit down with literary scholars to discuss the relationship of history, truth, and fiction. Taken together, these conversations enable readers to explore how these issues are negotiated in contemporary world literature. These conversations clarify how the biographical novel encourages cross-cultural dialogue, promotes new ways of thinking about history, politics, and social justice, and allows us to journey into the interior world of influential and remarkable people"--Bloomsbury Publishing. 606 $aBiographical fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNovelists$vInterviews 606 $2Historical fiction 615 0$aBiographical fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNovelists 676 $a809.382 702 $aLackey$b Michael 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793009903321 996 $aConversations with biographical novelists$93780181 997 $aUNINA