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oapen-20.500.12657-908002024-06-06T02:26:26Z Chapter Introduction 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. 2024-06-05T13:47:27Z 2024-06-05T13:47:27Z 2025 chapter 9781032778211 9781032797724 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90800 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781003493792_10.4324_9781003493792-1.pdf Taylor & Francis Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction Routledge 10.4324/9781003493792-1 10.4324/9781003493792-1 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb a4fc7858-6734-44a5-835f-ef7dd2d35e0c 9781032778211 9781032797724 Routledge 26 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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