Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? (Routledge Research in Women's Literature)

By: Paloma Fresno-Calleja and Hsu-Ming Teo

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Synopsis: Romantic fiction has often involved stories of travel. In narratives of the journey towards love, "romance" often involves encounters with "exotic" places and peoples. When history is invoked in such stories, the past itself is exoticised and treated as "other" to the present to serve the purposes of romanticisation: a narrative strategy by which all manner of things – settings, characters, costumes, customs, consumables – are made to perform a luxuriant otherness that amplifies the experience of love. This volume questions the reparative function of Anglophone romantic historical fiction to ask: can plots of travel and discourses of tourism empower women while narrating stories of healing for the wounds of the past? This is the first volume to consider how romanticised and exoticised women’s historical fiction not only serves the purposes of armchair travel but may also replicate colonial discourse, unintentionally positioning readers as neocolonial, neo-Orientalist cultural voyeurs as well as voyagers.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781040305669
Related ISBNs:: 9781040305614, 9781032801773, 9781003495840
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 12/16/24
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Paloma Fresno-Calleja and Hsu-Ming Teo
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:: Paloma Fresno-Calleja
Edited by:: Hsu-Ming Teo