Towards a definition of postcolonial biographical fiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9003602 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daria Tunca (0000-0002-5949-1209, University of Liège, corresponding author), Bénédicte Ledent (0000-0001-7770-0281, University of Liège) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 335-346 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9894 • E-ISSN: 1741-6442 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0021989419881234 |
| OpenAlex | W2988001289 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
In this introduction to the special issue on “Illuminating Lives: The Biographical Impulse in Postcolonial Literatures”, we start by situating the genre of biographical fiction, which has become increasingly popular in postcolonial literatures and beyond, in relation to more “traditional” nonfictional biography. We then examine how postcolonial biofiction might be distinguished from its postmodern avatar, and we tentatively circumscribe some of the tendencies that appear to cluster more systematically in postcolonial biofiction than in other types of writings: the focus on individuals — including artist figures — either forgotten or marginalized in traditional history; the use of the biofictional as a veritable mode of knowledge that allows writers and their critics to explore the philosophical implications of examining human trajectories; and the presence of narrative fragmentation, which often problematizes the possibility of ever fully apprehending an individual life
Aesthetics · Art · Avatar · Biography · Literature · Narrative · Postmodernism · Sociology · Biographical and Historical Analysis · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · History · Philosophy, History, and Historiography
The Postcolonial Historical Novel
The Distinction of Fiction
Postcolonial Life-Writing
A Poetics of Postmodernism
Provincializing Europe
The Biographical Turn
Going for the Subjective
The Rise of the Biographical Novel and the Fall of the Historical Novel
Telling Tales
Interview
Post-Colonialism, Post-Modernism and the Rehabilitation of Post-Colonial History
Fictional Biography, Factual Biography, and their Contaminations
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |