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Exoticizing the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction

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Editors:
  1. Elodie Rousselot

    1. University of Portsmouth, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Exoticising the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction

    1. Introduction: Exoticising the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction

      • Elodie Rousselot
      Pages 1-16

  4. Exotic Fascination / Neo-Historical Subversion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. Cannibalising the Other: David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and the Incorporation of ‘Exotic’ Pasts

      • Gerd Bayer
      Pages 103-119

    3. Neo-Victorian Experiments with (Natural) History in Harry Karlinsky’s The Evolution of Inanimate Objects

      • Elodie Rousselot
      Pages 120-137

    4. ‘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
      Pages 138-159

    5. Beasts of Burdened Memories: Exotic Figures in Michael Chabon’s Neo-Historical Holocaust Fiction

      • Mia Spiro
      Pages 160-177

    6. ‘A History of Darkness’: Exoticising Strategies and the Nigerian Civil War in Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

      • Amy S. Rushton
      Pages 178-195

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 196-197
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Portsmouth, UK

    Elodie Rousselot

About the editor

Rosario Arias, University of Málaga, Spain Gerd Bayer, Erlangen University, Germany Nick Bentley, University of Keele, UK Elsa Cavalié, University of Toulouse, France Therese-M. Meyer, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Amy S. Rushton, University of Manchester, UK Emily Scott, University of Portsmouth, UK Mia Spiro, University of Glasgow, UK Maeve Tynan, Independent Scholar, Ireland

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