Narrative Strategies in the Reconstruction of History

Edited By: Ana Fernandes

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This title enquires into the processes by which certain contemporary women pay testimony to history. It examines the reasons why they recreate the past, whether political, social or artistic, and the strategies employed to establish a comparison with the present.

This book enquires into the processes by which certain contemporary women pay testimony to history. It examines the reasons why they recreate the past, whether…

This book enquires into the processes by which certain contemporary women pay testimony to history. It examines the reasons why they recreate the past, whether political, social or artistic, and the strategies employed to establish a comparison with the present. The focus is on authors such as A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Anne Enright, Tracy Chevalier and Ali Smith.

The volume demonstrates and discusses parallels, shifts and transformations in the writing of these authors and in the rewriting of history in contemporary fiction by women authors.

Ana Raquel Fernandes is Lecturer in English at the Universidade Europeia de Lisboa, Portugal, and a full researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies. Her research interests include the novel and the short story in contemporary British and Portuguese women’s writing. She is the author of What about the Rogue? (Honourable Mention ESSE Book Award 2012), and co-edited, The Power of Form: Recycling Myths (2015) and Storytelling: Memory, Love and Loss in Portuguese Short Fiction (2016). She has also published a range of journal articles and book chapters on aspects of British and Portuguese contemporary fiction.

Alexandra Cheira, María José de la Torre, Ana-Karina Schneider, Celia Wallhead