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Internationally acclaimed biographies are almost always written by British or American biographers. But what is the state of the art of biography in other parts of the world? Introduced by Richard Holmes, the volume Different Lives offers a global perspective: seventeen scholars vividly describe the biographical tradition in their countries of interest. They show how biography functions as a public genre, featuring specific societal issues and opinion-making. Indeed, the volume aims to answer the question: how can biography contribute to a better understanding of differences between societies and cultures? Special attention is given to the US, China and the Netherlands. Other contributions are on Australia, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Iceland, Iran, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, and South Africa.
"This book represents a much needed breakdown of the history and current status of Biography Studies throughout the world. Any educator teaching a course in higher education that includes Biography Studies should definitely consider this as a major text for inclusion."
Billy Tooma, film maker and Assistant Professor, Wessex County College
"The rise of biography is the literary event of our time; Hamilton and Renders are its pioneer scholars, and their compelling primer is a must read."
Joanny Moulin, Institut Universitaire de France, on Nigel Hamilton and Hans Renders, in: The ABC of Modern Biography (2018)
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Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Richard Holmes
Different Lives in a Global World
Hans Renders
Truth, Lies and Fake Truth: the Future of Biography
Nigel Hamilton
Historical Biography in Canada: Historians, Publishers, and the Public
Daniel R. Meister
Biography as Discourse: South African Biography in the Post-Apartheid Era
Lindie Koorts
'La pauvre Belgique': How a Debate over the Repression after the Second World War Informed a Biographical
Tradition in Belgium
David Veltman
Biography in Spain: a Historical and Historiographic Perspective
María Jesús González
The Chinese Sense of Self and Biographical Narrative: an Overview
Kerry Brown
Double Dutch: the Art of Presidential Biography
Carl Rollyson
Biography in Australia: Different Yet the Same? All Connected Flatland?
Melanie Nolan
Writing Lives in Contemporary Italy
Yannick Gouchan
Hidden and Forbidden Issues in Works of Iranian Biography
Sahar Vahdati Hosseinian
From Reticence to Revelation: Biography in New Zealand
Doug Munro
The Icelandic Biography and Egodocuments in Historical Writing
Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon
Between 'Creators and Bearers of the Czech National Myth' and an 'Academic Suicide': Czech Biography in the
Twenty-First Century
Jana Wohlmuth Markupová
Biographies and Their Agendas: the Danish Biographical Tradition in a Historical Perspective
Joanna Cymbrykiewicz
The Biography's Pretension to Truth Is Relative. Biography in the Netherlands
Elsbeth Etty
Inception, Inheritance and Innovation: Sima Qian, Liang Qichao and the Modernization of Chinese Biography
Liu Jialin
Bibliography
Index
