Exoticizing the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction [electronic resource] /
Rousselot, E.editor.
This collection of essays is dedicated to examining the recent literary phenomenon of the 'neo-historical' novel, a sub-genre of contemporary historical fiction which critically re-imagines specific periods of history.
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Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Exoticising the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction; Part I: Exoticising the Historical Other; 1 Exoticising the Tudors: Hilary Mantel's Re-Appropriation of the Past in Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies; 2 Exoticising Colonial History: British Authors' Australian Convict Novels; 3 Exoticism and Consumption in Anne Enright's The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch; 4 'We were again on the trail of cannibals': Consuming Trauma and Frustrating Exoticism in Robert Edric's The Book of the Heathen
5 'It's like gold leaf, and now it's rising, peeling away': Britishness and Exoticism in Sarah Waters's The Night WatchPart II: Exotic Fascination / Neo-Historical Subversion; 6 Cannibalising the Other: David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and the Incorporation of 'Exotic' Pasts; 7 Neo-Victorian Experiments with (Natural) History in Harry Karlinsky's The Evolution of Inanimate Objects; 8 'Who Do You Think You Are Kidding?': The Retrieval of the Second World War in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and Ian McEwan's Atonement
9 Beasts of Burdened Memories: Exotic Figures in Michael Chabon's Neo-Historical Holocaust Fiction10 'A History of Darkness': Exoticising Strategies and the Nigerian Civil War in Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This collection of essays is dedicated to examining the recent literary phenomenon of the 'neo-historical' novel, a sub-genre of contemporary historical fiction which critically re-imagines specific periods of history.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
British literature.
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