APPLYING CULTURAL STUDIES IN STUDYING BIOGRAPHICAL GENRE

DOI: 10.18173/2354-1067.2020-0072

Tóm tắt

The acknowledgment of several nonfiction genres as literature along with the claim that genres are not pre–determined but socially constructed by cultural materialists suggests an approach to study biographical genres in general and Vietnamese kí in particular from the perspectives of cultural studies, a historical approach to genre. In this article, I will summarize the international and domestic scholarship of historical approach to biographical genre and kí to show the potential of applying this approach to conduct further research on this genre.