Speculative biography experiments, opportunities and provocations
"While speculation has always been crucial to biography, it has often been neglected, denied or misunderstood. This edited collection brings together a group of international biographers to discuss how, and why, each uses speculation in their work; whether this is to conceptualise a project in...
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New York :
Routledge
2022
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| Colección: | Routledge auto/biography studies
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1. Contexts and Methods Chapter 1: Experiments, Opportunities and Provocations in Speculative Biography: Opening and Overview Donna Lee Brien and Kiera Lindsey Chapter 2: A New Contextualisation of ‘"The Facts Formed a Line of Buoys in the Sea of My Own Imagination": History, Fiction and Speculative Biography’" Donna Lee Brien Chapter 3: The Speculative Method: Scientific Guesswork and Narrative as Laboratory Kiera Lindsey Part 2. Experiments Chapter 4: On the Threshold: Conceptual Speculation Ffion Murphy with Donna Lee Brien and Kiera Lindsey Chapter 5: Show Your Workings: Towards A Creative Historical Toolkit William G. Pooley Chapter 6: Scrying the Lost Wildflowers of ‘Wee Witchee Wee’ Kiera Lindsey Chapter 7: Writing to Save Sun Bears: Speculating about Non-Human Characters within Biography Sarah Pye with Paul Williams Chapter 8: Choreographing George Balanchine: The Life as Ballet Program Jessica Wilkinson Part 3. Opportunities Chapter 9: Speculating about a Spy: Working with ‘Suspicious Sources’ in Deciphering the Life of Ralph Harry Laura Thompson Chapter 10: Based on the Evidence and My Experience: The Role of Speculative Biography in a Decolonised Reimagining of the Bungalow, Alice Springs 1914–1929 Linda Wells Chapter 11: Bespoke Biography: Writing Fiona Foley Provocateur: An Art Life Louise Martin-Chew Chapter 12: Using Informed Imagination When Writing About Controversial Characters: The Case of Dr Felix Kersten and Himmler Anne M. Carson Part 4. Provocations Chapter 13: Speculative Historical Viability: A Grave Undertaking? Paul Sandringham Chapter 14: Challenges and Limitations of Speculation in True Crime Biography: A Lawyer’s Lens Rachel Spencer Chapter 15: Biographical ‘Facts’ and Speculative Forms: Writing John and Rose Morley Through New Eyes Kevin A. Morrison Chapter 16: The Curious Case of Cornelius Cardew: An Exercise in Reflective Speculation Harriet Cunningham Chapter 17: Why Not Tell?: Eddie Samuels, the Authentic Self and the Novel as Speculative Autobiography James Worner Chapter 18: Speculative Biography as Dewdrop: Writing Women’s Lives Deborah Jordan.
