Apocryphal Biography and Autobiography

This session seeks papers that examine the use of creative license in a
biography or autobiography. For the purpose of this session, creative
license is when the facts of a person’s life are adjusted or revised to
benefit the subject. The process may be conscious or unconscious: a subject
may purposefully mislead a biographer or may  misremember past events while
recounting them. In addition, an autobiography whose author has not been
overly honest may become the foundation for biographies which repeat the
same “facts”.  Papers should rely upon primary and secondary sources, such
as letters, diaries, and published documents, to explore how creative
license was used in the production of an accepted biography or
autobiography.

Previous papers have included: “A Case of Suspicious Genealogy: Abbé
Lambert & the Mansart Family”; “Trauma Victim or Drama Queen?: Art &
Artifice in Sylvia Plath’s Self-Portrayals”; “On Henry Miller’s Spiral Form
in His Autobiographical Novels”; “1850's Letters from Rembrandt: The Place
of Spiritualism in Mount’s (Auto)biography”; “Arthur G. Dove: Reevaluating
the Life & Work of the “Naive” American”; “Eleanor Antin’s Portraiture of
the 1970s: The Fiction of the Self”; “Truth & Fiction: Or, How Buckminster
Fuller Became an Architect”.

The 18th Annual Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association’s 2007
conference is from November  2-4, 2007 at the Radisson Plaza-Warwick Hotel
in Philadelphia, PA. Registration fees apply. For more information, please
go to <http://www.wcenter.ncc.edu/gazette/>.

Deadline for proposals: July 1, 2007

Send 1-page proposal,  CV & AV needs via snail mail to:
Rett Lorance
School of Visual Arts
P.O. Box 461
Inwood Station
New York, NY 10034-0461

Apologies for Cross-Postings


Loretta Lorance, Ph.D.
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