Full Description
This volume focuses on historical fiction written by and for women, approximately, in the last 30 years and across the entire globe. It comprises three parts. The first one draws on the theme of the inner life and experiences of the female historical figure, the second one is concerned with genre-bending that fuels the construction of the vast majority of story worlds within the genre, and the third one with the idea of unusual angles that the historical fiction storytelling employs
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: The Golden Age of Historical Fiction: Women's Fictionalizations of the Historical Past from a Global Perspective
Alicja Bemben and Michael Joseph
Part I. 21st-Century Heroines
Chapter 1. Representation of the First Turkish Woman Dramatist's Life on the Stage: Bilgesu Erenus's The Stigmatised Coffin (Yaftali Tabut)
Gülşen Sayin
Chapter 2. Bad Faith and Existential Authenticity in Joanne Joseph's Children of Sugarcane
Alicja Bemben
Chapter 3. Who Holds the Power? Gendered Experiences of Greatness in Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun
Aleksandra Mzyk
Chapter 4. Feminism Meets Enterprise: Gentleman Jack's Anne Lister and Her Dual Legacy?
Paulina Hacaś
Part II. Genre Experiments and the Social Change
Chapter 5. Story Writing and Ghost Summoning in Ghada al-Samman's The Impossible Story and Farewell, Damascus
Zaina Ujayli
Chapter 6. On the Fringes of Realism. Bizarre World in the Recent Polish Historical Fiction
Dariusz Piechota
Chapter 7. "American Poison": The Buccaneers (2023) and the Open-Ended Potential of Historical Romance
Maria Ogórek
Part III. (En)Gendering and Sexualising the Past
Chapter 8. Bring Up the Bodies: Hilary Mantel's Romancing of History
Tiziana Ingravallo
Chapter 9. The WoMen of Troy: The Reflection of L'autre Bisexualité in Pat Barker's Historical Novel, The Women of Troy
Merve Altin
Chapter 10. Fingersmith and the Pornography of the Past that Never Was
Justyna Jajszczok
Index
