Dear all, not strictly German Studies, but sounds most
interesting.
Best, Debbie
--- Susanna Scarparo
<[log in to unmask]> NEW BOOK
PUBLISHED BY TROUBADOR
>
> <Elusive Subjects: Biography as Gendered
> Metafiction> is an innovative,
> cross-cultural and interdisciplinary reflection on
> the nature of women's
> biographical writing. In discussing how a number of
> writers from Italy,
> the United States and Australia rescue, or
> reinterpret, forgotten and
> excluded notable women from the past, Scarparo
> presents a controversial
> theory of biography based on metafictional dialogues
> between biographers
> as self-declared writers of fiction and their
> biographical subjects. The
> author eloquently places biography at the centre of
> a reflection on the
> relationship between history and fiction, and
> questions the notion of
> historical truth by looking at specific examples in
> which history turns
> into fiction, and fiction becomes history.
>
> In her discussion of these examples, Scarparo links
> the general issue of
> women's history-intended as the act of revising,
> recuperating, or simply
> writing it as History-to a specific narrative
> strategy that she calls
> gendered metafiction. Elusive Subjects offers a
> perceptive discussion of
> the varying degrees to which writers such as Banti,
> Bellonci, Daitch and
> Modjeska render their presence as story-tellers
> visible. In so doing,
> Scarparo questions the concealment that the writing
> of history and
> biography have traditionally involved, and discusses
> feminist biography
> as gendered metafiction
>
> --
> Dr Susanna Scarparo
> Cassamarca Lecturer
> Italian Studies
> School of Languages, Cultures & Linguistics
> Monash University
> Victoria 3800
> Australia
>
> Tel: +61 3 99052222
> Fax +61 3 9905 2137
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