Women's Historical Fiction Across the Globe

ISBN-13: 9783031363597 / Angielski

Catherine Barbour; Karunika Kardak

Spis treści

Introduction: Catherine Barbour and Karunika Kardak, ‘New Directions in Women’s Historical Fiction Across the Globe’.- Section 1: ‘Remembering’.- Chapter 1: Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela, ‘Recovering and Rewriting the Past through the Testimonial: Claudia Salazar Jiménez’s Fictions of Contemporary Peru’.- Chapter 2: Kata Gyuris, ‘“Turn remembrance into a sly weapon”: Reclaiming Archival Memory in Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King’.-Chapter 3: Seoung Yun Lee, ‘An epic journey into history: reified memories in Korean “comfort women” novels’.-Section 2: ‘Retelling’.- Chapter 4: Tegan Zimmerman, ‘Speaking Through Stone: Mother-Daughter Plots in Dahlma.- Llanos-Figueroa’s Neo-Slave Narrative Daughters of the Stone (2009)’.- Chapter 5: Nisha Ghatak, ‘In the Shadows: Privilege and Feminine Disquiet in Aruna Chakravarti’s Jorasanko’.- Chapter 6: Linda Garber, ‘‘Yo Ho, Yo Ho, a Pirate Dyke for Me’: Contemporary Lesbian Historical Fiction’.- Chapter 7: Bonnie Thomas and Beth Kearney, ‘‘Bringing to Light’ a Marginal Figure of History: Photography in Gisèle Pineau’s Ady, soleil noir (2021)’.- Section 3: ‘Resisting’.- Chapter 8: Radhika Sharma and Nagendra Kumar, ‘Personal, National and Historical: Indo-Pak Partition as an Embodied Experience’.- Chapter 9: Guadalupe Elías, ‘Carmela, Catalina and Black Lemon Leaves. Mexican History and Coloniality in Ángeles Mastretta’s Arráncame la vida (1985)’.- Chapter 10: Jessica Habib, ‘Between the Self and the Collective: Reading Daughter Narratives and Postcolonial Settings in Erendiz Atasu’s The Other Side of the Mountain (2000) and Consuelo Baehr’s Three Daughters (2014)’.

O autorze

Catherine Barbour is Assistant Professor in Hispanic Studies at Trinity College Dublin. She is the author of Contemporary Galician Women Writers (2020) and of articles in the Bulletin of Spanish Studies, International Journal of Iberian Studies, Journal of Romance Studies, Parallax and English in Education.

Karunika Kardak is the author of Memory, Identity and the Historical Novel in Uruguay: Opening up the Archive 1985-2010 (2023).