Year
2022
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Language
English
Pages
9
Last Update
24-Jul-2025
Keywords
Art & Art History ; Feminist & Women's Studies ; History ; Language & Literature
A surge in recent attention to the parameters of biofiction,¹ thanks in large part to the pioneering work of Michael Lackey, has illuminated some of the tensions distinguishing critical reception of novels with that label.² Indeed, it’s not simply a matter of scholarship. When contemporary journalists respond to a literary genre with reporting that connects the challenges facing contemporary novelists with “ripped-from-the-headlines events,” their attention to the implications of biofiction has relevance for the general reader as well as the scholar. A case in point: Ron Charles, the Book World Critic for The Washington Post, broke a story in which...
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