03803namaa2200889uu 4500 oapen90799 oapen 20251217011849.0 a||||fo|||||||||0| cr|mn|---annan 240612s2024a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d 9781003493792 9781032778211 9781032797724 10.4324/9781003493792 doi oapen oapen eng dc D thema DS thema DSK thema N thema NH thema NHT thema NHTQ thema Fresno-Calleja, Paloma aut Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction Repairing the Past, Repurposing History Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2024 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Routledge Research in Women's Literature Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star 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. Open licence https://oapen.org/article/rights eng Biography, Literature and Literary studies thema Colonialism and imperialism thema History and Archaeology thema History: specific events and topics thema History thema Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers thema Literature: history and criticism thema alternative histories Caribbean Historical Romance Caribbean Literature Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction Her Land Her Love historical and contemporary injustice Historical Romance Holocaust Literature Hsu-Ming Teo Navajo Pacific War Paloma Fresno-Calleja Parsons Yazzie Plantation Life postmillennial Anglophone women writers Quaker romance romantic historical fiction romantic narrativisations of history Routledge Research in Women's Literature Sarah Lark Sexual Justice Suffragette The Faithless Wife the Spanish Civil War US Civil War Women's Suffrage Fresno-Calleja, Paloma edt Teo, Hsu-Ming edt OAPEN Library. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90799 Free-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication 0 37022 37022