Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History (Routledge Research in Women's Literature)

By: Hsu-Ming Teo and Paloma Fresno-Calleja

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Synopsis: This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to which past societies were damaging to women by instead imagining alternative histories. The novelists discussed employ the generic conventions of romance to narrate their understanding of historical and contemporary injustice and to reflect upon women’s achievements and the price they paid for autonomy and a life of public purpose. The volume seeks, firstly, to discuss the work of revision or reparation being performed by romantic historical fiction and, secondly, to analyse how the past is being repurposed for use in the present. It contends that the discourses and genre of romance work to provide a reparative reading of the past, but there are limitations and entrenched problems in such readings.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781040085417
Related ISBNs:: 9781003493792, 9781032778211, 9781040085394
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 06/13/24
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Hsu-Ming Teo and Paloma Fresno-Calleja
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Hsu-Ming Teo
Edited by:: Paloma Fresno-Calleja

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