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Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction

Repairing the Past, Repurposing History

dc.contributor.editorTeo, Hsu-Ming
dc.contributor.editorFresno-Calleja, Paloma
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-06T04:40:00Z
dc.date.available2024-06-06T04:40:00Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.date.submitted2024-06-05T13:41:27Z
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90799
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/138702
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRoutledge Research in Women's Literature
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.otherSexual 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
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism
dc.titleConflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction
dc.title.alternativeRepairing the Past, Repurposing History
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003493792
oapen.relation.isPublishedByfa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0
oapen.relation.hasChapterChapter Introduction
oapen.relation.hasChapter2948bd00-7f1e-4d14-95a6-e49bd6b6ddb0
oapen.relation.isbn9781003493792
oapen.relation.isbn9781032778211
oapen.relation.isbn9781032797724
oapen.imprintRoutledge


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