Derivative lives : biofiction, uncertainty, and speculative risk in contemporary Spanish narrative /
Considers the surge in biographical fiction (biofiction) as a paradigm shift in our understanding of real-life narratives, relating literary expression to theories of risk and uncertainty.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2022].
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| Series: | Biofiction studies.
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Table of Contents:
- The circumstantial case: chasing criminals/tracing traumatic histories. Making the circumstantial case: reasonable doubt and moral certainty in Javier Cercas' Soldiers of Salamis
- Fugitive biofictions: Antonio Muñoz Molina's Like a fading shadow and Gabriela Ybarra's The Dinner guest
- Speculative truths and derivative fictions. Entertaining the what-ifs in Rosa Montero's The Madwoman of the house and The Ridiculous idea of never seeing you again
- Fraudulent pasts and fictional futures in Javier Cercas' The Imposter and Adolfo García Ortega's The Birthday buyer
- Critical play in biofictional games. 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
- Literary afterlives and paratextual play: Elvira Navarro's The Last days of Adelaida García Morales and Antonio Orejudo's The Famous five and me
- Coda: Biofiction's antidotes to post-truth.