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dc.contributor.editorTeo, Hsu-Ming
dc.contributor.editorFresno-Calleja, Paloma
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-05T13:41:27Z
dc.date.available2024-06-05T13:41:27Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90799
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.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRoutledge Research in Women's Literatureen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticismen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writersen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialismen_US
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 injusticeen_US
dc.titleConflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fictionen_US
dc.title.alternativeRepairing the Past, Repurposing Historyen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003493792en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bben_US
oapen.relation.hasChapter089b91e6-9ae1-404e-9eab-c1ee3a9b345a
oapen.relation.isbn9781003493792en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032778211en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032797724en_US
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US


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