Speculative Biography (eBook, ePUB)

Experiments, Opportunities and Provocations
Redaktion: Lee Brien, Donna; Lindsey, Kiera

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000454734
• Artikelnr.: 62525446

Autorenporträt

Donna Lee Brien is Emeritus Professor of Creative Industries at Central Queensland University, Australia. Specialising in research on genres of non-fiction writing, Donna has published 23 books and monographs. Author of The Shadow Side of Nursing: Paradox, Image and Identity (with Margaret McAllister, 2020), co-edited collections include Writing the Australian Beach: Local Site, Global Idea (2020), Publishing and Culture (2019), Offshoot: Contemporary Life Writing Methodologies and Practice (2018), The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food (2018) and Recovering History through Fact and Fiction: Forgotten Lives (2017). Past President of national peak body the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, Donna co-edits The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture. Kiera Lindsey is a Senior Research Fellow conducting an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award on speculative biography and historical craft at the University of Technology Sydney. She has published book chapters and journal articles on nineteenth-century history, historical craft and biography. Her first speculative biography, The Convict's Daughter was published in 2018 and described as 'fearlessly carving a new path between history and fiction'. Her second is concerned with colonial artist and republican, Adelaide Ironside. Kiera has been an on-camera historian and a regular guest on ABC Radio National. She is currently an executive councillor with the History Council of New South Wales.

Inhaltsangabe

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