Exoticizing the past in contemporary neo-historical fiction /
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 deliberately and self-consciously re-imagines specific periods of history. The contributions reveal how, although set in th...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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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.