Exoticizing the past in contemporary neo-historical fiction
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Exoticizing the past in contemporary neo-historical fiction
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Exoticizing the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction
- Elodie Rousselot PART I: EXOTICIZING THE HISTORICAL OTHER 1. Exoticizing the Tudors: Hilary Mantel's Re-Appropriation of the Past in Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
- Rosario Arias 2. Exoticizing Colonial History: British Authors' Australian Convict Novels
- Therese-M. Meyer 3. Exoticism and Consumption in Anne Enright's The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch
- Maeve Tynan 4. 'We were again on the trail of cannibals': Consuming Trauma and Frustrating Exoticism in Robert Edric's The Book of the Heathen
- Emily Scott 5. 'It's like gold leaf, and now it's rising, peeling away': Britishness and Exoticism in Sarah Waters's The Night Watch
- Elsa Cavalie PART 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
- Gerd Bayer 7. Neo-Victorian Experiments with (Natural) History in Harry Karlinsky's The Evolution of Inanimate Objects
- Elodie Rousselot 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
- Nick Bentley 9. Beasts of Burdened Memories: Exotic Figures in Michael Chabon's Neo- Historical Holocaust Fiction
- Mia Spiro 10. 'A History of Darkness': Exoticizing Strategies and the Nigerian Civil War in Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Amy S. Rushton Index
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