Chapter Introduction
| Autor: | Teo, Hsu-Ming, Fresno-Calleja, Paloma |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2025 |
| Předmět: |
Sexual Justice
Historical Romance Caribbean Historical Romance Caribbean Literature US Civil War Quaker the Spanish Civil War The Faithless Wife Parsons Yazzie Her Land Her Love Navajo Pacific War Holocaust Literature Plantation Life Sarah Lark Women’s Suffrage Suffragette Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction Hsu-Ming Teo Paloma Fresno-Calleja Routledge Research in Women's Literature postmillennial Anglophone women writers romantic narrativisations of history alternative histories romance romantic historical fiction historical and contemporary injustice thema EDItEUR::D Biography Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction novelists and prose writers thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism |
| Druh dokumentu: | chapter |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781003493792-1 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OAPEN Library |
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