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Derivative Lives: Biofiction, Uncertainty, and Speculative Risk in Contemporary Spanish Narrative de Virginia Newhall Rademacher

Derivative Lives: Biofiction, Uncertainty, and Speculative Risk in Contemporary Spanish Narrative: Biofiction Studies

Autor Virginia Newhall Rademacher
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 feb 2024
The title of this book, Derivative Lives, alludes to the challenge of finding one's way within the contemporary market of virtually limitless information and claims to veracity. Amid this profusion of options, it is easy to feel lost in spaces of uncertainty where biographical truth teeters between the real and the imaginative. The title thus also points to the prolific market of biographical novels that openly and intentionally play in the speculative space between the real and the fictional. Drawing on theories of risk and uncertainty, Derivative Lives considers the surge in biofiction in Spain and globally, relating literary expression to concepts such as circumstantiality, derivatives, speculation, and game studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501386947
ISBN-10: 1501386948
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Biofiction Studies

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Illuminate how the speculative realism of biofiction conveys broader shifts in cultural logic, relating literary experimentation in the biographical novel with strategies in other fields and disciplines such as law, finance, and economics that similarly contend with provisional claims to truth and value

Notă biografică

Virginia Newhall Rademacher is Professor of Hispanic Literature and Cultural Studies at Babson College, USA. She has published widely on genre, identity, and new narrative formats, including the contemporary surge in biofiction. Among others, her publications have appeared in a/b:Auto/Biography Studies, American Book Review, Persona Studies, Economistas, Hispanic Issues, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Ciberletras, and Monographic Review.

Cuprins

AcknowledgementsIntroductionSECTION I The Circumstantial Case: Chasing Criminals/Tracing Traumatic Histories1. Making the Circumstantial Case: Reasonable Doubt and Moral Certainty in Javier Cercas' Soldiers of Salamis 2. Fugitive Biofictions: Antonio Muñoz Molina's Like a Fading Shadow and Gabriela Ybarra's The Dinner GuestSECTION II Speculative Truths and Derivative Fictions3. Entertaining the What-Ifs in Rosa Montero's The Madwoman of the House and the Ridiculous Idea of Never Seeing You Again4. Fraudulent Pasts and Fictional Futures in Javier Cercas' The Impostor and Adolfo García Ortega's The Birthday Buyer SECTION III Critical Play in Biofictional Games5. Playing for Real: Simulated Games of Identity in Lucía Etxebarria's Courtney and I and Truth is Nothing but a Moment of Falsehood Appendices to Chapter 5 6. Literary Afterlives and Paratextual Play: Elvira Navarro's The Last Days of Adelaida García Morales and Antonio Orejudos's The Famous Five and MeCoda: Biofiction's Antidotes to Post-TruthEndnotesBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

A brilliant analysis of the Spanish biofictional novel within the wider context of contemporary thought. Virginia Rademacher examines research from both within and beyond the field of literary criticism to show how biofiction as a genre challenges the notion of history as an abstraction or an irretrievable reality by depicting how real people deal with specific historical situations. Rademacher's command of modern history, intellectual currents, and the Spanish bio-novel is indeed impressive.
With case studies drawn from some of contemporary Spain's most exciting writers, this is an original and compellingly theorized exploration of how biofiction works to understand, vex, exploit, or otherwise experiment with questions of uncertainty, identity, and risk in the supermodern present. Rademacher engages playfully and productively with disciplinary discourses emerging from fields such as law, finance and economics-which similarly contend with competing claims to truth and value-and dives deep into the circumstantial and speculative games that authors play when they write fiction about reality.
Considering the rich field of Spanish biofiction in relation to concepts of uncertainty, speculation, and risk in a post-truth age, Rademacher's Derivative Lives establishes an exciting interdisciplinary nexus. In the course of this study, Rademacher expands the scope and ambition of biofiction studies.
Derivative Lives nos ofrece una profunda, amena, necesaria y muy interesante indagación de las borrosas fronteras entre lo real y lo ficticio, en un mundo cada vez más impreciso en donde ni siquiera la propia identidad resulta fiable.Derivative Lives offers us a deep, entertaining, necessary, and very interesting investigation of the blurred borders between reality and fiction, in an increasingly imprecise world where even one's own identity is not reliable.