Alternatives in biography : writing lives in diverse English-language contexts / Stephen Hardy, Martina Horáková, Michael Matthew Kaylor, & Kateřina Prajznerová
Alternatives in Biography focuses on texts that draw into question fictional, personal, and academic genre conventions, foregrounding the multiple ways lives are written and selves are constructed. Each of the four chapters examines a particular type of transgressive auto/biographical writing, namely versions of Uranian/fictionate autobiography, bioregional biography, pastoral biography, and Indigenous collaborative life writing. American, Australian, British, Canadian, and Northern Irish perspectives are explored. Key writers are A. Newman (1854-1932), Forrest Reid (1875-1947), Emily Carr (18
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