| Truthful Fictions: Conversations with American Biographical Novelists Contributor(s): Lackey, Michael (Author), Lackey, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1623568250 ISBN-13: 9781623568252 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 813.082 |
| LCCN: 2013036203 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.80 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this new collection of interviews, some of America's most prominent novelists identify the key intellectual developments that led to the rise of the contemporary biographical novel, discuss the kind of historical 'truth' this novel communicates, indicate why this narrative form is superior to the traditional historical novel, and reflect on the ideas and characters central to their individual works. These interviews do more than just define an innovative genre of contemporary fiction. They provide a precise way of understanding the complicated relationship and pregnant tensions between contextualized thinking and historical representation, interdisciplinary studies and 'truth' production, and fictional reality and factual constructions. By focusing on classical and contemporary debates regarding the nature of the historical novel, this volume charts the forces that gave birth to a new incarnation of this genre. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lackey, Michael: - Michael Lackey is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, USA. He is the author of The Modernist God State: A Literary Study of the Nazis' Christian Reich (2012), and African American Atheists and Political Liberation: A Study of the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Faith, which won the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title in 2008. He is also the editor of The Haverford Discussions: A Black Integrationist Manifesto for Racial Justice (2013). |