TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fresno-Calleja,Paloma
AU  - Fresno-Calleja,Paloma
AU  - Teo,Hsu-Ming
TI  - Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History
T2  - Routledge Research in Women's Literature
SN  - 9781003493792
PY  - 2024///
PB  - Taylor & Francis, Routledge [Imprint]
KW  - Biography, Literature and Literary studies
KW  - thema
KW  - Colonialism and imperialism
KW  - History and Archaeology
KW  - History: specific events and topics
KW  - History
KW  - Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
KW  - Literature: history and criticism
KW  - alternative histories
KW  - Caribbean Historical Romance
KW  - Caribbean Literature
KW  - Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction
KW  - Her Land
KW  - Her Love
KW  - historical and contemporary injustice
KW  - Historical Romance
KW  - Holocaust Literature
KW  - Hsu-Ming Teo
KW  - Navajo
KW  - Pacific War
KW  - Paloma Fresno-Calleja
KW  - Parsons Yazzie
KW  - Plantation Life
KW  - postmillennial Anglophone women writers
KW  - Quaker
KW  - romance
KW  - romantic historical fiction
KW  - romantic narrativisations of history
KW  - Routledge Research in Women's Literature
KW  - Sarah Lark
KW  - Sexual Justice
KW  - Suffragette
KW  - The Faithless Wife
KW  - the Spanish Civil War
KW  - US Civil War
KW  - Women's Suffrage
N1  - Free-to-read
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90799
ER  -