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oapen-20.500.12657-907992024-06-05T13:47:30Z Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction Teo, Hsu-Ming Fresno-Calleja, Paloma 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 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. 2024-06-05T13:41:27Z 2024-06-05T13:41:27Z 2025 book 9781003493792 9781032778211 9781032797724 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90799 eng Routledge Research in Women's Literature Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003493792 10.4324/9781003493792 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 089b91e6-9ae1-404e-9eab-c1ee3a9b345a 9781003493792 9781032778211 9781032797724 Routledge open access
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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.
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