European Journal of Life Writing (Dec 2023)
Julia Novak and Caitríona Ní Dhúill (eds.), Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction
Abstract
Taking its cue from Judith Butler’s definition of gender as ‘a practice of improvisation within a scene of constraint’ (2), this volume of essays sets out to explore biographical fiction’s innovations in gender, and also in genre. Deliberately avoiding ‘grand theor[ies]’ (3), the editors offer an understanding of genre as historically situated and in constant flux; like existing tropes of gender, concepts of genre are seen as available to biofiction’s rewritings.
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