1. Alternatives in Biography : Writing Lives in Diverse English-language Contexts
- Author
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Hardy, Stephen, Prajznerova, Katerina, Kaylor, Michael Matthew, Horáková, Martina, Hardy, Stephen, Prajznerova, Katerina, Kaylor, Michael Matthew, and Horáková, Martina
- Subjects
- English literature, Biography--English, Biography--Study and teaching, Autobiography--English
- Abstract
Alternatives in Biography focuses on texts that draw into question fictional, personal, and academic genre conventions, foregrounding the multiple ways lives are written and selves are constructed. Each of the four chapters examines a particular type of transgressive auto/biographical writing, namely versions of Uranian/fictionate autobiography, bioregional biography, pastoral biography, and Indigenous collaborative life writing. American, Australian, British, Canadian, and Northern Irish perspectives are explored. Key writers are A. Newman (1854–1932), Forrest Reid (1875–1947), Emily Carr (1871–1945), Emma Bell Miles (1879–1919), John Berger (1926–), Peter Ackroyd (1949–), Paul Carter (1951–), Rita (1921–1996) and Jackie Huggins (1956–), and Kim Scott (1957–) and Hazel Brown (1925–).
- Published
- 2011