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UNDOING LIFE WRITING: POSTMODERN BIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION IN WOOLF, BARNES, AND WINTERSON

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UNDOING LIFE WRITING: POSTMODERN BIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION IN WOOLF, BARNES, AND WINTERSON

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This article examines how Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot, and Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? challenge the authority and ethics of traditional biography through postmodern biographic metafiction. Drawing on Linda Hutcheon’s historiographic metafiction and feminist and queer approaches to life writing, the study argues that these texts foreground narrative construction, epistemological uncertainty, and genre fluidity. Woolf satirizes biography through gender and temporal instability; Barnes fractures the biographical form to reveal the elusiveness of truth; Winterson fuses fiction and memoir to explore trauma and identity. Together, these works resist biographical transparency and recast life writing as a performative, interpretive, ethically charged act. By incorporating Winterson’s hybrid texts into the discussion, the article expands debates in feminist, queer, and postmodern literature, positioning these authors as central to the transformation of biography into a self-reflexive, experimental, and politically engaged literary practice.

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The article has been prepared in accordance with research and publication ethics. This study does not require ethics committee approval.

Kaynakça

  1. Barnes, J. (2009). Flaubert’s parrot. Vintage.
  2. Berlatsky, E. (2009). “Madame Bovary, c’est moi!”: Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot and Sexual “Perversion”. Twentieth Century Literature, 55(2), 175-208.
  3. Boswell, J. (2008). The life of Samuel Johnson. D. Womersley (Ed.), Penguin Classics.
  4. Brown, F. (2006). Flaubert: A biography. Little, Brown, and Company.
  5. Butler, J. (1990). Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. Routledge.
  6. de Man, P. (1979). Autobiography as de-facement. Comparative Literature, 94(5), 919-930.
  7. Dillon, S. (2013). The palimpsest: Literature, criticism, theory. Bloomsbury.
  8. Freud, S. (2010). The interpretation of dreams. (Trans: J. Strachey), Basic Books.

Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Modern ve Postmodern Edebiyat

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yazarlar

Henrieta Krupa *
0000-0003-3066-8813
Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti

Yayımlanma Tarihi

31 Ocak 2026

Gönderilme Tarihi

16 Temmuz 2025

Kabul Tarihi

15 Eylül 2025

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2026 Cilt: 27 Sayı: 50

Kaynak Göster

APA
Krupa, H. (2026). UNDOING LIFE WRITING: POSTMODERN BIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION IN WOOLF, BARNES, AND WINTERSON. Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 27(50), 345-362. https://doi.org/10.21550/sosbilder.1743778
AMA
1.Krupa H. UNDOING LIFE WRITING: POSTMODERN BIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION IN WOOLF, BARNES, AND WINTERSON. Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 2026;27(50):345-362. doi:10.21550/sosbilder.1743778
Chicago
Krupa, Henrieta. 2026. “UNDOING LIFE WRITING: POSTMODERN BIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION IN WOOLF, BARNES, AND WINTERSON”. Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 27 (50): 345-62. https://doi.org/10.21550/sosbilder.1743778.
EndNote
Krupa H (01 Ocak 2026) UNDOING LIFE WRITING: POSTMODERN BIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION IN WOOLF, BARNES, AND WINTERSON. Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 27 50 345–362.
IEEE
[1]H. Krupa, “UNDOING LIFE WRITING: POSTMODERN BIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION IN WOOLF, BARNES, AND WINTERSON”, Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, c. 27, sy 50, ss. 345–362, Oca. 2026, doi: 10.21550/sosbilder.1743778.
ISNAD
Krupa, Henrieta. “UNDOING LIFE WRITING: POSTMODERN BIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION IN WOOLF, BARNES, AND WINTERSON”. Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 27/50 (01 Ocak 2026): 345-362. https://doi.org/10.21550/sosbilder.1743778.
JAMA
1.Krupa H. UNDOING LIFE WRITING: POSTMODERN BIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION IN WOOLF, BARNES, AND WINTERSON. Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 2026;27:345–362.
MLA
Krupa, Henrieta. “UNDOING LIFE WRITING: POSTMODERN BIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION IN WOOLF, BARNES, AND WINTERSON”. Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, c. 27, sy 50, Ocak 2026, ss. 345-62, doi:10.21550/sosbilder.1743778.
Vancouver
1.Henrieta Krupa. UNDOING LIFE WRITING: POSTMODERN BIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION IN WOOLF, BARNES, AND WINTERSON. Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 01 Ocak 2026;27(50):345-62. doi:10.21550/sosbilder.1743778