Truthful Fictions: Conversations with American Biographical Novelists

Name: Truthful Fictions: Conversations with American Biographical Novelists
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ISBN: 9781623568252

ISBN-10: 1623568250

ISBN-13: 9781623568252

Edition: 2014

Authors: Michael Lackey

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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,…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 4/24/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

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).