Conversations with Biographical Novelists

• Utgivningsdatum: 2018-10-18
• Mått: 146 x 220 x 22 mm
• Vikt: 500 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 296
• Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• ISBN: 9781501341465

• Litteraturvetenskap

Michael Lackey is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Morris, USA. He is the author or editor of eight books, including African American Atheists and Political Liberation: A Study of the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Faith, which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year in 2008, and Truthful Fictions: Conversations with American Biographical Novelists (Bloomsbury, 2014).

A goldmine for biofiction researchers through its conceptual density and the vividness of its dialogues, Conversations with Biographical Novelists is also a great source of insight into the working strategies of numerous acclaimed contemporary authors from various countries, including the recent Nobel Prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk. The interviews tackle specific contemporary issues like the porous boundary between historical and literary discourse and the limits of writerly responsibility, without shying away from the broader questions undergirding them, such as the meaning of writing and making sense of the world in the twenty-first century. [...] Conversations with Biographical Novelists is a valuable diagnosis of the state of our society through the lens of its literary understanding of the boundaries of truth. Its importance for cultural studies is paralleled by its impact on postmodern and post-postmodern studies, and of course, by its relevance for lifewriting scholars. [...] Next to the volume’s impact on lifewriting scholarship, what stands out is its contribution to literary scholarship more generally by putting the author back on the map as a critical interlocutor. [...] The interviews offer the intellectual spectacle of writers tracing the genesis of their own ideas and theorizing aspects of their own technique [...] While remaining open to a diversity of approaches, Conversations with Biographical Novelists unveils original resonances between the conceptions of writers from all corners of the world, putting them in dialogue not just with their interviewers, but also, essentially, with one another.

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