{"product_id":"biofiction-9780367747633","title":"Biofiction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBiofiction: An Introduction\u003c\/em\u003e provides readers with the history, origins, evolution, and legitimization of biofiction, suggesting potential lines of inquiry, exploring criticisms of the literary form, and modeling the process of analyzing and interpreting individual texts. Written for undergraduate and graduate students, this volume combines comprehensive coverage of the core foundations of biofiction with contemporary and lively debates within the subject. The volume aims to confront and illuminate the following questions: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e When did biofiction come into being? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e What forces gave birth to it? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e How does it uniquely function and signify? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Why has it become such a dominant aesthetic form in recent years? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis introduction will give readers a framework for evaluating specific biofictions from writers as varied as Friedrich Nietzsche, George Moore, Zora Neale Hurston, William Styron, Angela Carter, Joyce Carol Oates, and Colm Tóibín, thus enabling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Nineteenth Century Origins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Art of Agential Living\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePortraits of Whom?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFigure One\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFigure Two\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eII.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiterature, Cultural Critique, and Political Liberation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBiofiction as Social Critique\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Irish, the Unslave Trade, and the Decolonization of the Mind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 1930s and the First Surge in Biofiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIII.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiterary Debates\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Assault on Biofiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe William Styron Controversy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePostmodernism’s Historiographic Metafiction or Biofiction’s \"Truth\" Proposals?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohn Edgar Wideman on the Ethics of Fictionalizing a Life in Biofiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIV.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Uncanny Power of Biofiction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBiofiction as Cultural Intervention: The Case of \u003ci\u003eSally Hemings\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 1990s: The Decade of Biofiction’s Official Legitimization and Dominance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Transformative Powers of Biofiction for Students: A Case Study of David Ebershoff’s \u003ci\u003eThe Danish Girl\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018054697303,"sku":"9780367747633","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367747633.jpg?v=1750775486","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/biofiction-9780367747633","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}