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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Zusammenfassung: | "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 its early stages, work with scanty or deliberately deceptive sources, or address issues associated with shy or stubborn subjects. After defining the role of speculation in biography, the volume offers a series of work-in-progress case studies that discuss the challenges biographers encounter and address in their work. In addition to defining the 'speculative spectrum' within the biographical endeavour, the collection offers a lexicon of new terms to describe different types of biographical speculation, and more deeply engage with the dynamic interplay between research, subjectivity and that which Natalie Zemon Davis dubbed 'informed imagination'. By mapping the field of speculative biography, the collection demonstrates that speculation is not only innate to biographical practice but also key to rendering the complex mystery of biographical subjects, be they human, animal or even metaphysical"-- |
Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | xvii, 332 Seiten Illustrationen, Porträts |
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adam_text | Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Contributors PART I Contexts and Methods 1 Experiments, Opportunities and Provocations in Speculative Biography: Opening and Overview x xii xiv 1 3 DONNA LEE BRIEN AND KIERA LINDSEY 2 ‘The Facts Formed a Line of Buoys in the Sea of My Own Imagination’: History, Fiction and Speculative Biography 20 DONNA LEE BRIEN 3 The Speculative Method: Scientific Guesswork and Narrative as Laboratory 41 KIERA LINDSEY PART П Experiments 4 On the Threshold: ConceptualSpeculation 59 61 FFION MURPHY, DONNA LEE BRIEN, AND KIERA LINDSEY 5 Show Your Workings: Towards A Creative Historical Toolkit 75 WILLIAM G. POOLEY 6 Scrying the Lost Wildflowers of ‘WeeWitchee Wee’ KIERA LINDSEY 95
viii Contents 7 Writing to Save Sun Bears: Speculating about Non-Human Characters withinBiography 113 SARAH PYE AND PAUL WILLIAMS 8 Choreographing George Balanchine: The Life as Ballet Program 131 JESSICA WILKINSON PART Ш Opportunities 9 Speculating about a Spy: Working with ‘Suspicious Sources’ in Deciphering the Lifeof RalphHarry 147 149 LAURA THOMPSON 10 Based on the Evidence and My Experience: The Role of Speculative Biography in a Decolonising Reimagining of the Bungalow, Alice Springs 1914-1929 164 LINDA WELLS 11 Bespoke Biography: Writing Fiona Foley Provocateur: An Art Life 180 LOUISE MARTIN-CHEW 12 Using Informed Imagination When Writing About Controversial Characters: The Case of Dr Felix Kersten and Himmler 199 ANNE M. CARSON PART ГѴ Provocations 219 13 Speculative Historical Viability: A Grave Undertaking? 221 PAUL SANDRINGHAM 14 Challenges and Limitations of Speculation in True Crime Biography: A Lawyer’s Lens 239 RACHEL SPENCER 15 Biographical ‘Facts’ and Speculative Forms: Writing John and Rose Morley Through New Eyes KEVIN A. MORRISON 255
Contents ix 16 The Curious Case of Cornelius Cardew: An Exercise in Reflective Speculation 272 HARRIET CUNNINGHAM 17 Why Not Tell?: Eddie Samuels, the Authentic Self and the Novel as Speculative Autobiography 287 JAMES WORNER 18 Speculative Biography as Dew-Drop: Writing Women’s Lives 306 DEBORAH JORDAN Index 323
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Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Contributors PART I Contexts and Methods 1 Experiments, Opportunities and Provocations in Speculative Biography: Opening and Overview x xii xiv 1 3 DONNA LEE BRIEN AND KIERA LINDSEY 2 ‘The Facts Formed a Line of Buoys in the Sea of My Own Imagination’: History, Fiction and Speculative Biography 20 DONNA LEE BRIEN 3 The Speculative Method: Scientific Guesswork and Narrative as Laboratory 41 KIERA LINDSEY PART П Experiments 4 On the Threshold: ConceptualSpeculation 59 61 FFION MURPHY, DONNA LEE BRIEN, AND KIERA LINDSEY 5 Show Your Workings: Towards A Creative Historical Toolkit 75 WILLIAM G. POOLEY 6 Scrying the Lost Wildflowers of ‘WeeWitchee Wee’ KIERA LINDSEY 95
viii Contents 7 Writing to Save Sun Bears: Speculating about Non-Human Characters withinBiography 113 SARAH PYE AND PAUL WILLIAMS 8 Choreographing George Balanchine: The Life as Ballet Program 131 JESSICA WILKINSON PART Ш Opportunities 9 Speculating about a Spy: Working with ‘Suspicious Sources’ in Deciphering the Lifeof RalphHarry 147 149 LAURA THOMPSON 10 Based on the Evidence and My Experience: The Role of Speculative Biography in a Decolonising Reimagining of the Bungalow, Alice Springs 1914-1929 164 LINDA WELLS 11 Bespoke Biography: Writing Fiona Foley Provocateur: An Art Life 180 LOUISE MARTIN-CHEW 12 Using Informed Imagination When Writing About Controversial Characters: The Case of Dr Felix Kersten and Himmler 199 ANNE M. CARSON PART ГѴ Provocations 219 13 Speculative Historical Viability: A Grave Undertaking? 221 PAUL SANDRINGHAM 14 Challenges and Limitations of Speculation in True Crime Biography: A Lawyer’s Lens 239 RACHEL SPENCER 15 Biographical ‘Facts’ and Speculative Forms: Writing John and Rose Morley Through New Eyes KEVIN A. MORRISON 255
Contents ix 16 The Curious Case of Cornelius Cardew: An Exercise in Reflective Speculation 272 HARRIET CUNNINGHAM 17 Why Not Tell?: Eddie Samuels, the Authentic Self and the Novel as Speculative Autobiography 287 JAMES WORNER 18 Speculative Biography as Dew-Drop: Writing Women’s Lives 306 DEBORAH JORDAN Index 323 |
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