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    Making Bedlam: Toward a Trauma-Informed Mad Feminist Literary Theory and Praxis by Jessica Lowell Mason

    Published 2023-03-01
    “…The article theorizes “bedlam” as a form of deliberate Mad literary practice, offering two examples of “bedlam-making”, one in the poetry of Anne Sexton’s 1960 collection <i>To Bedlam and Part-way Back</i> and the other in the historical fiction of Toni Morrison’s <i>Beloved</i>. The article strives to re-articulate “bedlam” in a way that draws attention to the agency of language on the subject of madness, when written and read by writers and readers aware of the acute violences and traumas performed upon bodies exiled from “Reason”, attending to the ways in which writers and readers make a subjectivity of “bedlam” or a resistance to and critique of systemic oppression that gives social agency to Mad literary action. …”
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    The white settlers' experience of exile and alienation in Grenville’s The Secret River by Khorzughi, Ruzbeh Babaee, Ali Termizi, Arbaayah, Jujar Singh, Hardev Kaur

    Published 2015
    “…Grenville’s novel gives her the chance to do a historical research that is from the history of her ancestors in 1805 to the realities that contemporary historians disclose about Australian settlers. In her historical fiction, Grenville depicts the exile, alienation, failure, success, dream, desire, and lifestyle of her own ancestors. …”
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    Discerning cultural homegenisation: crisis of identity and sense of unbelonging in the kindness of enemies by Leila Aboulela by Azman, Maryam, Bahar, Ida Baizura

    Published 2020
    “…A contemporary novel by Aboulela, namely the historical fiction The kindness ofenemies (2015), revolves around the protagonist, Natasha, and her crisis of identity and sense of unbelonging in Britain. …”
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    The sturlung era in modern Icelandic historical prose: Einar Kárason by Olga Markelova

    Published 2022-12-01
    “…In modern Icelandic historical fiction the most noticable text, devoted to the Sturlung era, is the tetralogy by Einar K?…”
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    The paradise is too far [Book review: Rybakov V. On a Hairy Back. St. Petersburg, Limbus Press, Izd. K. Tublina, 2016, 367 p.] by D.E. Martynov

    Published 2017-02-01
    “…The novel “On a Hairy Back” has been compared to other works created by the author at different stages of his creative activity: the alternative historical fiction “Gravilyot “Tsesarevitch”” (1992) and the fairytale burlesque “Eurasian Symphony” (2000–2005) published together with I.A. …”
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    METHODS TO TRANSLATE REALIA IN CHINESE-LANGUAGE NOVELS INTO ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN by Alina B. Maslakhova, Ulyana S. Baimuratova

    Published 2022-12-01
    “…The cultural reforms at the end of the 20th century in China opened to the world a whole variety of genres of Chinese short stories, as well as science fiction and historical fiction. Thanks to the Internet, they are gaining popularity at the present stage of literature formation, expanding the range of genres of online works with new types such as xianxia, xuanhuan, wuxia, which are rich in lexemes that denote the realia of Chinese culture and are of interest to translators. …”
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    男性穿越小说的历史风情 :以《官居一品为例》 = The historical charisma of male 'Time Travelling' fictional writing : using Guan Ju Yi Pin as an example by 卢嘉煜 Lu, Jiayu

    Published 2013
    “…Hence to come out with a conclusion that the hypostatic difference between male and female fictional writings is the difference between historical fiction and romantic fiction. In this way, this thesis aims to give male fictional writings an equal and independent status in future academic researches on ‟time travelling‟.…”
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    Memoirs of a taboo : a novel. Volume 1 -- Women in pre- and post-Victorian India : the use of historical research in the writing of fiction. Volume 2 by Praveen, Radhika

    Published 2018
    “…This practice-based creative writing doctorate supports the creation of a novel that is in part, historical fiction, based on research focusing on the discrepancies in the perceived status of women between the pre-Victorian and the postmillennial periods in India. …”
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    Stylisation in rethinking history through chronotope and polyphony in selected postmodern Indian thriller novels in english by Pathinathan, Santini

    Published 2021
    “…Fiction writers have always been fascinated with history, especially historical fiction writers or writers who are inspired by history. …”
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    Multilingualism in the Estonian Translations of Baltic German Literature / Mitmekeelsusest baltisaksa kirjanduse eestikeelsetes tõlgetes by Anna Verschik, Maris Saagpakk

    Published 2023-12-01
    “…The article presents various techniques through which translators address the challenge of conveying potentially colonial aspects of language usage in Baltic German historical fiction to contemporary Estonian readers. …”
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    History and Storytelling: Historical Narratives by Women Authors of the Contemporary American South by Susanne Rothaug

    Published 2011-12-01
    “…Contemporary historical fictions by women writers of the American South show new ways of dealing with the region’s history. …”
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    THE INTERPRETATION OF THE “PICTURES OF LATE TIME“ (JAN KALINCIAK: RESTAVRACIA /RESTORATION/) by René Bílik

    Published 2010-10-01
    “…He defines it as basic semantic gesture of Ján Kalinčiak not only for this fiction but also for his historical fictions. Those are helpful as a “paradigm” of methods and conventions for reading the Reštavrácia (Restoration). …”
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    Review of We Belong to Big Church: Caribbean Soundings and Stories in Anglicania by Anatol Allison Ferguson

    Published 2023-10-01
    “… We Belong to Big Church: Caribbean Soundings and Stories in Anglicania provides a rare insight into the cross-cultural dynamics of Afro-Anglicanism in the Caribbean and in North America. The historic fictional religious narratives of the first section give a voice to the ecclesial and cultural adjustments of the Anglican Caribbean Diaspora in America. …”
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    La sensibilisation par les jeux vidéo comportant des modalités documentaires by Simon Hagemann

    Published 2023-07-01
    “…Then, the main specificities of a documentary approach in video games are highlighted in relation to similar formats - webdocumentaries and historical fictional games. Finally, the article attempts to analyse some of the main strategies used by some video games to raise awareness of different social themes. …”
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    The Role of History in Bestseller and Blockbuster Culture by Gunhild Agger

    Published 2013-12-01
    “…The article provides a brief overview of prevalent conceptions and ideas of history that can be applied to the wide-spread historical fictions of the bestseller and blockbuster culture. …”
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    Les « discours » de Veturia, Valeria et Hersilia by Emmanuelle Valette

    Published 2013-12-01
    “…The narratives in Greek draw more from the tragic to build the figure of the “mother” and the “supplicant”. But the historic fiction of Coriolanus also resonates with the episode of the Sabine women who, by their words and prayers, knew how to convince their fathers and husbands to sign the peace. …”
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    Investigating Tarikh-e Beyhaghi through Discourse Analysis by Ghodsieh Rezvanian, Jafar Rezapour

    Published 2023-10-01
    “…Due to the expanse of the text of the book, and the limitation of the article, only one theoretical topic (sermon) and two historical-fictional topics (the story of Afshin and Budolaf - and the nobles of Ray's response to Sultan Masoud) have been selected for analysis. …”
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    Le Pakistan face aux interdictions, à la censure et aux ordonnances présidentielles : le cas de Naya Pakistan par PTI by Raheen Fatimah KHAN

    Published 2024-09-01
    “…The paper investigates the institutionalization of these draconian regulations whose impact has already started to appear with the confiscation and setting ablaze of Urdu translations of Mohammad Hanif’s novel: A Case of Exploding Mangoes by unknown men in Karachi, a novel which illustrates the historical fictional account of General Zia’s last days as President of Pakistan (Hussain, 2020). …”
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