Brno Studies in English
Volume 37, No. 2, 2011
ISSN 0524-6881
Approaches to Transgressive
Auto/Biography
Edited by
Michael M. KAYLOR, Stephen P. HARDY, Martina HORÁKOVÁ,
and Kateřina PRAJZNEROVÁ
Contents
Approaches to Transgressive Auto/Biography: Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Rob BAUM: Aphra Behn’s Black Body: Sex, Lies & Narrativity in Oroonoko  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Nina BOSNIČOVÁ: Transgressive Black Female Selfhood  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Brigitte BOUDREAU: Libidinal Life: Bram Stoker, Homosocial Desire
and the Stokerian Biographical Project  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Petr CHALUPSKÝ: Prick lit or naked hope? Self-exposure in Hanif Kureishi’s Intimacy  . . . . . 61
Milada FRANKOVÁ: The Red Queen: Margaret Drabble’s (Auto)Biographical Pastiche  . . . . . 79
Evelyne HANQUART-TURNER: The Rogue’s Progress: The In-Between World
of Vikram Lall  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Christoph HOUSWITSCHKA: Escaping on the Kindertransport from Democratic
Czechoslovakia  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Tihana KLEPAC: Discourse of Difference: Rosa Campbell Praed’s My Australian
Girlhood  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Katalin KÜRTÖSI: Life Writing and Biographical Plays: Emily Carr  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Julia NOVAK: Biographical Fiction to Historiographic Metafiction: Rewriting
Clara Schumann  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Vanja POLIC: The Texture of Everyday Life  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Bernice SCHRANK: Telling It Like it Is (and Isn’t): Recreating the Self in Brendan Behan’s
Borstal Boy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Wendy WARD: Does Autobiography Matter?: Fictions of the Self in Aleksandar Hemon’s
The Lazarus Project  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Éva ZSIZSMANN: Escaping Flimsy Formal Cages: Alice Munro’s Too Much Happiness
as Fictionalised Biography  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201