Derivative Lives

Derivative Lives

Biofiction, Uncertainty, and Speculative Risk in Contemporary Spanish Narrative

Newhall Rademacher, Virginia

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

08/2022

248

Dura

Inglês

9781501386909

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
SECTION I The Circumstantial Case: Chasing Criminals/Tracing Traumatic Histories
1. Making the Circumstantial Case: Reasonable Doubt and Moral Certainty in Javier Cercas' Soldiers of Salamis
2. Fugitive Biofictions: Antonio Munoz Molina's Like a Fading Shadow and Gabriela Ybarra's The Dinner Guest
SECTION II Speculative Truths and Derivative Fictions
3. Entertaining the What-Ifs in Rosa Montero's The Madwoman of the House and the Ridiculous Idea of Never Seeing You Again
4. Fraudulent Pasts and Fictional Futures in Javier Cercas' The Impostor and Adolfo Garcia Ortega's The Birthday Buyer
SECTION III Critical Play in Biofictional Games
5. Playing for Real: Simulated Games of Identity in Lucia Etxebarria's Courtney and I and Truth is Nothing but a Moment of Falsehood
Appendices to Chapter 5
6. Literary Afterlives and Paratextual Play: Elvira Navarro's The Last Days of Adelaida Garcia Morales and Antonio Orejudos's The Famous Five and Me
Coda: Biofiction's Antidotes to Post-Truth
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
biofiction; biographical fiction; biographical; narrative; real-life; reality; prose; fiction; Spanish literature; contemporary literature; speculative; truth; real; imaginative; literary expression; theory; risk; game studies