Journal articles: 'Historical fiction'

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Mickel, Emanuel J. "Fictional History and Historical Fiction." Romance Philology 66, no. 1 (January 2012): 57–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/j.rph.5.100799.

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Teo, Hsu-Ming. "Historical fiction and fictions of history." Rethinking History 15, no. 2 (June 2011): 297–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2011.570490.

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White, Hayden. "Introduction: Historical Fiction, Fictional History, and Historical Reality." Rethinking History 9, no. 2-3 (June 2005): 147–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13642520500149061.

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Esber, Mary Jane. "Historical Fiction." JAMA 296, no. 14 (October 11, 2006): 1781. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.296.14.1785.

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Bailey, Edward. "Science Fiction, Historical Fiction and Religion Fiction?" Implicit Religion 17, no. 4 (December 12, 2014): 539–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/imre.v17i4.539.

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Fitzpatrick, Noel. "The question of Fiction – nonexistent objects, a possible world response from Paul Ricoeur." Kairos. Journal of Philosophy & Science 17, no. 1 (December 1, 2016): 137–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/kjps-2016-0020.

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Abstract The question of fiction is omnipresent within the work of Paul Ricoeur throughout his prolific career. However, Ricoeur raises the questions of fiction in relation to other issues such the symbol, metaphor and narrative. This article sets out to foreground a traditional problem of fiction and logic, which is termed the existence of non-existent objects, in relation to the Paul Ricoeur’s work on narrative. Ricoeur’s understanding of fiction takes place within his overall philosophical anthropology where the fictions and histories make up the very nature of identity both personal and collective. The existence of non-existent objects demonstrates a dichotomy between fiction and history, non-existent objects can exist as fictional objects. The very possibility of the existence of fictional objects entails ontological status considerations. What ontological status do fictional objects have? Ricoeur develops a concept of narrative configuration which is akin to the Kantian productive imagination and configuration frames the question historical narrative and fictional narrative. It is demonstrated that the ontological status of fictional objects can be best understood in a model of possible worlds.

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Raghunath, Riyukta. "Possible worlds theory, accessibility relations, and counterfactual historical fiction." Journal of Literary Semantics 51, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jls-2022-2047.

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Abstract Possible Worlds Theory has commonly been invoked to describe fictional worlds and their relationship to the actual world. As an approach to genre, the relationship between fictional worlds and the actual world is also constitutive of specific text types. By drawing on the notion of accessibility relations, different genres can be classified based on the distance between their fictional worlds and the actual world. Maître, Doreen. 1983. Literature and possible worlds. Middlesex: Middlesex University Press for example, in what is considered the first attempt to adapt accessibility relations from logic to literary studies, distinguishes between four text types depending on the extent to which their fictional worlds can be seen as possible, probable, or impossible in the actual world. Developing Maître’s work, Ryan, Marie-Laure. 1991a. Possible worlds and accessibility relations: A semantic typology of fiction. Poetics Today 12. 553–576, c.f. Ryan, Marie-Laure. 1991b. Possible worlds, artificial intelligence, and narrative theory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press) creates a comprehensive taxonomy of accessibility relations that may be perceived between fictional worlds and the actual world. This includes assuming compatibility with the actual world in terms of physical laws, general truths, people, places, and entities. Using her taxonomy, she then offers a typology of 13 genres to show how fictional worlds created by different genres differ from each other. As it stands, Ryan’s typology does not contain the genre of counterfactual historical fiction, but similar genres such as science fiction and historical confabulation are included. In this article, specific examples from counterfactual historical fiction are analysed to show why it is problematic to place these texts within the genres of historical confabulation or science fiction. Furthermore, as I show, Ryan’s typological model also does not account for some of the characteristic features of the genre of counterfactual historical fiction and as such the model cannot account for all texts within the genre. To resolve this issue, I offer modifications to Ryan’s model so it may be used more effectively to define and distinguish the genre of counterfactual historical fiction.

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Park, J. P. "Art-Historical Fiction or Fictional Art History?" Archives of Asian Art 72, no. 2 (October 1, 2022): 181–219. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00666637-9953432.

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Abstract In 1634 Zhang Taijie (b. 1588) published a woodblock edition of Baohuilu (A Record of Treasured Paintings), an extensive catalog of a massive painting collection he claimed to have built. This work would seem to be a useful resource for historians of Chinese art since it provides accounts of paintings by artists whose works are no longer extant. But there is one major problem: the book is a forgery. What is more, Zhang also forged paintings to match the documentation he created, so he could also profit from trading in them. Interestingly, the book also echoes unfounded claims registered in art-historical writings of the time, wherein leading critics and connoisseurs, including Dong Qichang (1555–1636), propounded completely contrived arguments by which they tried to establish legitimate lineages in Chinese art. Such propositions represent, borrowing from Eric Hobsbawm's insight, a kind of “invented tradition,” a fictional history of practice and artifact that runs as some thought it ought to have, rather than as it did. By looking into all the three major components of forgeries in early modern China that are referenced throughout Zhang Taijie's catalog—(1) fabricated texts, (2) forged paintings, and (3) fake histories/theories—this paper aims to explain how Baohuilu facilitated Zhang's candid desire for fame and profit in the booming art market of the time, while unveiling certain cultural, social, and genealogical anxieties and tensions negotiated in the form of art-historical theories.

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Susan, Mabel, and Hemachandran Karah. "Pedagogical-historical Fiction." Caribbean Quarterly 70, no. 1 (January 2, 2024): 32–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00086495.2024.2323377.

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Dutta, Nandana. "Amitav Ghosh and the Uses of Subaltern History." Synthesis: an Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies, no. 8 (December 1, 2015): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/syn.16209.

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The interface between history and fiction has been an area of rich potential for the postcolonial novelist in South Asia and this is evident in the practice of many novelists from the region who have used historical material as backdrop but have also used fiction to comment on recent events in their countries. In this paper I examine the work of Amitav Ghosh as offering a fictional method that has evolved out of his immersion in subaltern historical practice and one that successfully bridges the gap between these two genres. I show this through his deployment of historical material in the three novels, The Shadow Lines (1988), The Glass Palace (2000) and The Hungry Tide (2004), where Ghosh is not simply ‘using’ the subaltern method but pointing to the possibilities of reparation. Ghosh adopts a complex inversion of the subaltern method that involves two processes: one, the selection of small, neglected events from the national story in a concession to subaltern practice –the little narrative against the grand; and two, the neglect by the narrative of some aspect of these stories. He does this by choosing his historical area carefully, keeping some part of it silent and invisible and then meditating on silence as it is revealed as a fictional and historical necessity. I suggest that Ghosh, by retrieving and giving place/voice to the historically repressed event in the fiction, achieves a swerve from simply ‘righting the record’ and releases the marginal as a referent in the present. Such fiction enters the realm of intervention in public discourse, or carries the potential, by introducing considerations that create public consciousness about historical injustices, successfully ‘using’ subaltern history.

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Descher, Stefan. "Satirical Novels of the Late Enlightenment and the Practice of Fiction. A Methodological Proposal for Investigations Into the History of Fiction." Journal of Literary Theory 14, no. 2 (September 25, 2020): 147–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jlt-2020-2003.

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AbstractThe paper examines German satirical novels of the late Enlightenment period, published roughly between 1760 and 1790, under the following question: Is there any evidence that the historical practice of fiction (concerning this time and these texts) deviates from the modern practice of fiction as described by institutional accounts of fictionality? First, it is explained what, in this essay, is meant by the ›modern practice of fiction‹. Four ›core rules‹ are identified that, according to institutional accounts of fictionality, characterize the practice of reading works of fiction. These core rules are: You should not conclude that what is expressed by fictional utterances is actually true! You should not conclude that the author believes that what is expressed by his fictional utterances is actually true! You should imagine what is expressed by fictional utterances (make-believe, pretence)! You should (or at least can) make your imaginations the object of higher-level attitudes (for example you can evaluate, emotionally respond to, interpret them etc.)! Then, using the example of German satirical novels of the late Enlightenment, seven features of fictional texts are discussed that may provide clues about the historical practice of fiction and that could give an indication of whether the core rules actually do apply. These features are: assurances of truthfulness by the author or fictional authors/editors; direct thematization of the fictional/factual-text-distinction; fictional reading scenarios; comments by fictional narrators and/or characters on the practice of reading; statements of the actual author in the fictional text; ›that cannot be true‹-passages (intentional mistakes, anachronisms, various ways of breaking the reader’s expectations, etc.); various kinds of reference to the actual world (for example satirical allusions to actual persons or states of affairs). It will be argued that, for the corpus of texts under consideration, there is no convincing evidence that the historical practices of reading works of fiction deviates in any significant way from the core rules of the modern practice of fiction. However, the main aim of this paper is not to provide an exhaustive historical case study. First, the investigation is limited to the exemplary discussion of some (although significant) texts and text passages, so the results can only be considered preliminary. Second, while the satirical novel of the late Enlightenment indeed is a particularly interesting and revealing genre for the study of the historical practice of fiction (arguments are given in section 3), the main purpose of this essay is to make a methodological proposal. A general procedure is provided for finding out whether the historical practice of fiction differs from our modern practice – a procedure that can be applied to texts of other times and genres as well.

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Thị Huệ, Đoàn. "Fiction and art fiction in historical novel." Journal of Science, Social Science 62, no. 2 (2017): 27–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.18173/2354-1067.2017-0004.

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O'Callaghan, Evelyn. "Historical Fiction and Fictional History: Caryl Phillips's Cambridge." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 28, no. 2 (June 1993): 34–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198949302800205.

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Wadham, Rachel Lynn, Andrew P. Garrett Garrett, and Emily N. Garrett. "Historical Fiction Picture Books." Journal of Culture and Values in Education 2, no. 2 (June 27, 2019): 57–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.46303/jcve.02.02.4.

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Historical fiction picture books represent a small subset of titles in the broader scope of the format. However, these books are important to both readers and educators. As books are used in educational settings it is critical to assess their effectiveness in helping teach children. This is especially true of historical fiction which generates its own unique challenges. To deeply assess historical fiction picture books we gathered and analyzed a sampling of 126 titles to assess trends in the genre. We found that there were multiple conflicts between the genre and format. There were many books in the sample that struggled with directing the content to a young audience, giving a accurate portrayal of race issues, and maintaining general authenticity and accuracy in the writing. There were also some notable examples of historical picture books that did not display these faults, showing that with the right content and approach, historical fiction picture books have the potential to be invaluable tools for teaching children.

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Fileva, Iskra. "HISTORICAL INACCURACY IN FICTION." American Philosophical Quarterly 56, no. 2 (April 1, 2019): 155–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/48570835.

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Abstract I ask whether and when historical inaccuracy in a work of art constitutes an aesthetic flaw. I first consider a few replies derived from others: conceptual impossibility, import-export inconsistency, failure of reference, and imaginative resistance. I argue that while there is a grain of truth to some of these proposals, none of them ultimately succeeds. I proceed to offer an alternative account on which the aesthetic demerits of historical inaccuracies stem from a violation of the conversational contract between author and audience. The key question is what that contract implies.

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EDN, Lois K. Hanson, Rosemary Twohey, Sally R. Frederick, Susan Henneberg, Edie Norlin Sanders, Ken Hogarty, Marijo Grimes, and Stephanie Carr. "Booksearch: Recommended Historical Fiction." English Journal 78, no. 1 (January 1989): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/818000.

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Lu. "Chinese Historical Fan Fiction." Pacific Coast Philology 51, no. 2 (2016): 159. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/pacicoasphil.51.2.0159.

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Golinski, J. "HISTORICAL FICTION: Newton's Ghosts." Science 321, no. 5885 (July 4, 2008): 40–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1160708.

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De Roest, Karla. "Maak een vuist als je geen hand hebt. Inclusiviteit in (pre)historische jeugdromans." Paleo-aktueel, no. 33 (July 16, 2024): 39–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/pa.33.39-48.

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The one-handed hero: Inclusiveness in historical fiction for childrenHaving grown up with a sister in a wheelchair meant that I took this normalcy into the fictional world of the past. So when I crossed paths with Drem in Rosemary Sutcliff’s 1958 novel Warrior Scarlet, he was to me just a boy with one functional arm. It was not until much later that I realised he was one of the very few protagonists in historical fiction with a disability. A lack of inclusiveness is problematic, first, when it comes to readers identifying with the physical condition of the hero(ine) and, second, because, from an archaeological perspective, the proportion of healthy people in historical fiction seems improbably high, while the representation of people with a disability is often stereotyped. Maybe archaeologists should provide authors of historical fiction with a more informed description of the past.

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Tyers, Rhys William. "Historiographic Metafiction and the Metaphysical Detective in Roberto Bolaño’s Amulet." MANUSYA: Journal of Humanities 24, no. 2 (December 6, 2021): 270–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26659077-24020005.

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Abstract Roberto Bolaño’s Amulet explores the writing of history as an attempt to construct a narrative from a multitude of unreliable and conflicting sources. As a result, any attempt at historiography is also plagued by the problems of representation found in literature. More particularly, not unlike detective fiction, history is concerned with identifying the inspirations and actions of its players and with revealing the truth about an episode or series of episodes, using historical information, all of which may or may not be reliable. By examining the relationship between the historical and the fictional in Amulet this paper will discuss Bolaño’s use of the tropes of metaphysical detective fiction and how they help foreground the difficulties posed by historical facts by reinventing them in fiction. This will, in turn, highlight the intersection between detective fiction and historiographic metafiction and how by combining these two genres writers can reimagine historical contexts and find new meanings and significance.

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WILSON, KIM. "The Past Re-imagined: Memory and Representations of Power in Historical Fiction for Children." International Research in Children's Literature 1, no. 2 (December 2008): 111–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2008.0001.

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This article argues that historical fiction functions as a collective memory: it provides a social framework for recollections that speak of a national agenda often through personal experiences. Taking as its examples three Australian and New Zealand fictions for children and young adults, from the late twentieth and early twentieth-first century, the article examines texts that focus on how we remember the past and what aspects of that past should be remembered: Memorial (1999), a picture book by Gary Crew (author) and Shaun Tan (illustrator), The Divine Wind (1998) by Garry Disher, and The Swap (2004) by Wendy Catran. Close analysis of these texts suggests that, like memory itself, historical fiction tends to eulogise the past. In historical fiction, for children especially, whilst power relations of cultural significance can be perpetuated, they can also be re-positioned or re-invented in order to re-imagine the past. Shifts in the present understanding of past power relationships contribute towards the reinvention of race relations, national ideologies and the locus of political dissent. The article concludes that historical fiction, because of its simultaneous claim to fact and imagination, can be a powerful and cunning mode of propaganda.

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Siderevičiūtė, Simona. "Science Fiction in Historical and Cultural Literary Discourse." Respectus Philologicus 25, no. 30 (April 25, 2014): 172–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/respectus.2014.25.30.13.

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This work intends to complement literary studies in science fiction. It discusses the history of global science fiction, overviews the most characteristic features of its historical periods, and provides an introduction to Lithuanian science fiction, indicating its main features and topics. In the context of culture, science fiction is often defined as a literary genre with the emphasis on its nature as fiction. Only rarely are the history of the origin of science fiction, its variations, and the pioneers of science fiction whose works are still highly valued taken into account. Science fiction is often criticized through the filter of preconceived ideas that consider this type of literature to be “frivolous.” This article discusses the possible reasons for such an approach. In Lithuania, this genre is still associated only with pop literature, and its expression cannot yet equal the works of foreign authors. The basic classical motifs of global science fiction found in Lithuanian science fiction include: representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations and human contact with them, scientists and inventors, agents of military institutions, and space travel. Lithuanian science fiction writers follow the traditions of global science fiction when using these classical motifs; however, a general lack of original and individual themes, motifs, and manifestations may be observed.

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Rowland, Antony. "Fiction as Testimony." Literature & History 33, no. 1 (May 2024): 37–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03061973241245758.

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This article explores the fraught relationship between the terms ‘fiction’, ‘creativity’, ‘literature’ and ‘testimony’ in Holocaust and trauma studies. It argues that the main challenge in reading witness literature is to read testimony as both factual and potentially fictional at the same time when no metatextual corroboration is available. This anxiety of testimony originates in some key texts in Holocaust and trauma studies: I analyse for the first time the repercussions of fictional passages in Primo Levi's If This is a Man (1947), The Truce (1963) and Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz and After (1985). These sections in no way attenuate the veracity of the overall narratives of survival. Rather than presenting the fictional as fact in bad faith, these books demonstrate the importance of creativity in responding to historical events, particularly when there are no existing historical narratives to present an alternative view. They also emphasise the current critical dichotomy in Holocaust and trauma studies between what Sara Guyer terms the ‘non-representational character’ of literature from ‘the representational character of testimony’. If we attempt to think beyond this binary between fictional literature and books about witnessing, it is possible to reflect on how fiction itself can operate as a form of testimony.

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Htut, U. Than, and U. Than Kaung. "Some Myanmar Historical Fiction and their Historical Context." MANUSYA 6, no. 3 (2003): 95–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26659077-00603006.

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Forter, Greg. "Atlantic and Other Worlds: Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 131, no. 5 (October 2016): 1328–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2016.131.5.1328.

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This essay traces the meanings and effects of postcolonial authors' recent refashioning of classical historical fiction. That refashioning has two aims: a materialist cartography that counters the nationalist vocation of classical historical fiction by revealing the supranational, global aspirations of colonial capitalism as a system; and an effort to retrieve from colonial modernity the residues of premodern, often presecular modes of solidarity that persist in yet lie athwart the colonial-modern. The analysis focuses on two novels: Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger (1992) and Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies (2006). It engages with work on the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, with theoretical critiques of utopia, and with the Lukácsian concept of typification (and Ian Baucom's criticism of it). The essay concludes by linking the birth of postcolonial historical fiction to the form of finance capital undergirding our contemporary moment—a form of capital that reprises while intensifying that which held sway at the moment of historical fiction's first emergence.

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Rehberger, Dean. "Vulgar Fiction, Impure History: The Neglect of Historical Fiction." Journal of American Culture 18, no. 4 (December 1995): 59–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-734x.1995.1804_59.x.

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Muwati, I., D. E. Mutasa, and M. L. Bopape. "The Zimbabwean liberation war: contesting representations of nation and nationalism in historical fiction." Literator 31, no. 1 (July 13, 2010): 147–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v31i1.41.

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This article examines the array of macro and micro historical factors that stirred historical agency in the 1970s war against colonial settlerism as depicted in selected liberation war fiction. This war eventually led to a negotiated independence in April 1980. Historical fiction in the early 1980s is characterised by an abundance of fictional images that give expression to the macrofactors, while historical fiction in the late 1980s onwards parades a plethora of images which prioritise the microhistorical factors. Against this background, the article problematises the discussion of these factors within the context of postindependence Zimbabwean politics. It argues that the contesting representations of macro- and microfactors in historical fiction on the war symbolise the protean and fluid discourse on nation and nationalism in the Zimbabwean polity. Definitions and interpretations of nation and nationalism are at the centre of Zimbabwean politics, because they are linked to the protracted liberation war against colonialism and the politics of hegemony in the state. Macrofactors express and endorse an official view of nationalism and nation. On the other hand, microfactors problematise and contest the narrow appropriation of nation and nationalism by advocating multiple perspectives on the subject in order to subvert and counter the elite hegemony.

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Pavonetti, Linda M. "Historical Fiction-New and Old." Voices from the Middle 9, no. 2 (December 1, 2001): 78–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/vm20012389.

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Offers brief descriptions of 41 books of historical fiction that may interest intermediate and middle school students, many of them new releases that tackle unusual historical topics. Argues that historical fiction is an ideal medium for taking intermediate and middle school students out of their day-to-day surroundings and into other times and places, helping them learn more about the world.

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Peabody, Susan. "Reading and Writing Historical Fiction." Iowa Journal of Literary Studies 10, no. 1 (1989): 29–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.17077/0743-2747.1295.

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Sepetys, Ruta. "Historical Fiction: The Silent Soldier." ALAN Review 42, no. 3 (June 21, 2015): 79–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.21061/alan.v42i3.a.9.

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Parimala, Gudala, and Prof P. Rajendra Karmarkar. "Historical Fiction and Hilary Mantel." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 7, no. 1 (2022): 241–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.71.32.

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Rycik, Mary Taylor, and Brenda Rosler. "The Return of Historical Fiction." Reading Teacher 63, no. 2 (October 2009): 163–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1598/rt.63.2.8.

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Menendez, Albert J. "Religious Liberty in Historical Fiction." Religion & Public Education 15, no. 4 (October 1988): 451–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10567224.1988.11488087.

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Heuer, Imke. "British Historical Fiction before Scott." Women's Writing 19, no. 3 (April 3, 2012): 376–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2012.666421.

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O'Gorman, Ellen. "Detective Fiction and Historical Narrative." Greece and Rome 46, no. 1 (April 1999): 19–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s001738350002605x.

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We know that Cicero successfully defended Sextus Roscius on a charge of parricide in 80 B.C.; we know that Vespasian became emperor after the civil wars of A.D. 69, and founded the Flavian dynasty which ended with his son Domitian's death in A.D. 96.

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Tynan, Elizabeth. "Operation Buffalo: A historical fiction." History Australia 17, no. 3 (July 2, 2020): 573–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2020.1798794.

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Nawrot, Kathy. "Making Connections with Historical Fiction." Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas 69, no. 6 (August 1996): 343–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00098655.1996.10114336.

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Iammarino, Denna. ":Renaissance Historical Fiction." Sixteenth Century Journal 43, no. 2 (June 1, 2012): 505–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/scj24245455.

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Ağarı, Murat. "Historical Roots and Syntactic Nature of Languages." Journal of History Culture and Art Research 10, no. 4 (December 31, 2021): 32–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.7596/taksad.v10i4.3138.

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All languages have a common, ontological nature, and this nature cannot be changed. Although there are some differences in the fictions of languages, the general course of this ontological nature is the same in all languages. Although we are talking about an ontological nature that is the same in all languages, the differences that exist between languages affect and determine the attitudes of societies that use this language. In another respect, history is a totality of social attitudes. Therefore, the language used by society can affect the attitude of that society. In other words, societies have an attitude in such a way that the language they use is foreseen. So much so that, beyond the fictional difference, even the presence or absence of a word in any language can be decisive of a social attitude. Of course, the presence or absence of a word is a small detail in the whole; but when the peculiar fictions of languages are evaluated as a whole, the effects of social attitudes on history, which is the totality, will be seen more clearly. In this study, first of all, the concept of “language family” will be focused on by giving the “definition of language”. Then, the nature of Turkish will be discussed through the language family fiction and its reflections on history will be discussed. Turkish, English, Arabic and will be sampled throughout the study.

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Chew, Ng Kim, and Po-Hsi Chen. "Why Does a Failed Revolution Also Need Fiction?" Prism 19, no. 2 (September 1, 2022): 411–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9966717.

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Abstract The historical relationship between the categories of Malayan Communist fiction and People's Republic of China revolutionary historical fiction remains to be clarified, just as the Malayan Communist revolution was covertly, but undeniably, connected to the Chinese Communist Party. This essay attempts to take the PRC's revolutionary historical fiction as a reference point to reinvestigate Malayan Communist fiction, which was characterized as “historical fiction” by left-wing writers. Examples include Jin Zhimang's Hunger, Liu Jun's Wind Blowing in the Woods, and Tuo Ling's The Hoarse Mangrove Forest. The key issue is that the PRC's revolutionary historical fiction is premised on triumphalism, to authenticate the revolution's legitimacy, while Malayan Communists' revolutionary historical fiction hinges instead on the failure of revolution—though it cannot be recognized as such. How do these latter works contemplate and represent revolution? Does fiction have to rationalize the legitimacy of a failed revolution (or one mired in predicaments)? Or does fiction attempt to accomplish something else? These questions may concern the raison d’être of Malayan Chinese literary realism, which takes representing reality as its mission and investigates its underlying paradoxes.

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Ruiz Carmona, Carlos. "The Fiction in Non-Fiction Film." Revista ICONO14 Revista científica de Comunicación y Tecnologías emergentes 17, no. 2 (July 1, 2019): 10–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.7195/ri14.v17i2.1238.

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Over the past few decades film theory, major scholars and acclaimed filmmakers have established that documentary just like fiction must resort to ambiguous and subjective rhetorical figures in order to represent the world. This has led some scholars to conclude that documentary as a term referring to itself as being non-fictional might be disregarding its inevitable fictional elements. This may imply that both documentary and fiction use the same strategies and obtain the same results when representing the world: ficitionalize reality. If we accept this claim as true we need to ask whether terms such as fiction and non-fiction or documentary make sense when discussing representing reality. Does this mean that cinema can only fictionalize reality and therefore we should erradicate from this discussion tems such as non-fiction or documentary due to their associated “truth” claim? Can we understand or discuss representing reality without referring to those terms? Can the term fiction exists in fact without refferring to the term non-fiction or documentary? The questions that this paper intends to answer are: What roles do documentary and fiction play in representing the historical world? Are these terms necessary to comunicate and understand representing reality? This paper has established that fiction and documentary are necessary terms that emerge in cinema narration as means to mirror human experience’s needs to organize, communicate and understand reality.

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Conroy, Thom, Joanna Grochowicz, and Cristina Sanders. "Interpreting History Through Fiction." Public History Review 29 (December 6, 2022): 195–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/phrj.v29i0.8241.

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In ‘Interpreting History Through Fiction: Three Writers Discuss their Methods’, creative historical authors Thom Conroy, Joanna Grochowicz and Cristina Sanders engage in a conversation about the intersection of history and fiction. Arising from a session of the 2021 New Zealand Historical Association Conference entitled ‘Learning History Through Fiction’, the three-way dialogue interrogates the role of learning history from creative texts, navigates the fact/fiction balance in creative historical writing, explores concerns about the potential for harm in historical fiction, outlines the authors' own motives for adopting a creative approach to history, and examines what Hilary Mantel calls the ‘readerly contract’ in historical fiction. The conversation does not seek consensus nor finality in the answers offered to the questions the authors have put to one another. Rather, the authors allow contradictions and disagreements to remain intact, thus conveying their collective sense of open-endedness regarding creative approaches to history. This open-endedness is intentional, as the answers that arise from dialogue are intended to be as provisional and contingent as the evolving genre of historical fiction itself.

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Beck, Cathy, Shari Nelson-Faulkner, and Kathryn Mitchell Pierce. "Historical Fiction: Teaching tool or Literary Experience?" Language Arts 77, no. 6 (July 1, 2000): 546–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/la2000133.

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Looks at the characteristics of outstanding historical fiction including its literary qualities and criteria associated with authenticity. Discusses how teachers invite readers to approach their experiences with these novels. Looks at the role of historical fiction in today’s classrooms. Presents brief annotations of 25 outstanding works of children’s historical fiction. Notes other outstanding books.

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Cronin, Michael G. "‘Ransack the histories’: Gay Men, Liberation and the Politics of Literary Style." Review of Irish Studies in Europe 5, no. 1 (May 25, 2022): 73–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.32803/rise.v5i1.2971.

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It is now twenty years since the publication of Jamie O’Neill’s At Swim, Two Boys (2001). O’Neill’s novel was not the first Irish novel to depict same-sex passion, and not even the first Irish gay novel of the post-decriminalisation period. However, it did attain a wider and higher level of recognition among mainstream Irish, and international, readers. This may have been at least partly due to O’Neill’s decision to write a historical romance – a genre which still retains its enduring appeal for readers. By adapting this genre, O’Neill uses fiction to unearth, and imaginatively recreate, an archaeology of same-sex passions between men in revolutionary Ireland. As such, his novel speaks powerfully to a yearning to make the silences of history speak and is motivated by the belief that, as Scott Bravmann puts it in a different context, ‘lesbian and gay historical self-representation – queer fictions of the past – help construct, maintain and contest identities – queer fictions of the present.’ Revisiting O’Neill’s novel now – after two decades of remarkable social change for Ireland’s LGBT communities, and after almost a decade of national commemoration of the revolutionary period – is a timely opportunity to reflect on the relationship between history, fiction and how we imagine sexual liberation. Keywords: Gay Men in Irish Culture; Historical Fiction; Jamie O’Neill; Denis Kehoe; ANU Theatre Company

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Oja, Matt F. "Fictional History and Historical Fiction: Solzhenitsyn and Kis as Exemplars." History and Theory 27, no. 2 (May 1988): 111. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2505136.

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Anamika Shukla. "Rewriting History Through Creative Writing." Knowledgeable Research: A Multidisciplinary Journal 1, no. 4 (November 30, 2022): 77–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.57067/96nt2k15.

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Rewriting history in creative writing involves reinterpreting, reimagining, or changing historical events, people, or periods in one's works of fiction. Authors may take a variety of approaches, from small alterations providing new insights to extensive changes deviating from history considerably. This critical rethinking of the past and its narrative representations can explore alternative histories, contest established views, and highlight the voices of people historically ignored. Several types of creative writing can be grouped under the definition of rewriting history, with each having its conventions and goals. Historical fiction, based on real historical artefacts or events, allows writers to imagine filling gaps left by historical records, making history relatable. Alternate history explores what might have been if critical moments in the past unravelled differently, challenging the inevitability of historical events. Speculative fiction, a popular style, blends real historical settings with fantastical ones, offering a perspective on historical possibilities informed by imagination. Historical revisionism in imaginative literature significantly influences collective memory and cultural identity, questioning existing narratives and exposing submerged histories. The paper is a modest attempt to unravel the fact of rewriting the history through creative writing.

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Hanfi, Muneer Ahmed. "براہوئی افسانہ مسافر؛ نا فنی او تنقیدی جاچ اس." Al-Burz 12, no. 1 (December 31, 2020): 14–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.54781/abz.v12i1.37.

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In the 19th century, Haibat Khan crafted "Musaafir" the premier fiction, a historical short story in the Brahui language and it was published in the year 1957, in the monthly literary magazine Nawaiy-e-Watan. The author employed content analysis, a branch of descriptive research to critically review fiction writing techniques, in comparison with the modern day fictions. The investigation revealed that the ‘Musaafir’ is a masterpiece of literary work in Brahui language, which focuses the portrayal of nature, characterizations, narration skills, theme and plot development, dialog formation, thought process, description of events and climax based fictitious short story. This study represents the culture of the society in Balochistan, and also reflects the writers’ insight of fiction drafting skills in line with contemporary fiction writing techniques

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GHEORGHIU, Oana Celia. "ENCODING REALITY INTO FICTION/ DECODING FICTION AS REALITY: POSTMODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY AS CRITICAL THEORY." International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on the Dialogue between Sciences & Arts, Religion & Education 5, no. 1 (November 24, 2021): 99–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.26520/mcdsare.2021.5.99-105.

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This paper is intended as a brief critical review of three interrelated, fairly similar critical theories, born out the necessity of looking into cultural forms and products with a view to finding the politics at work therein. While American New Historicism is more historically oriented, British Cultural Materialism, with its more obvious influence from Marxism, Postcolonialism and other theories which place the margin at their centre, seems to be more in tune with contemporaneity, and so is the area of Cultural Studies, with its emphasis on cultural representations. It is advocated here that contemporary fiction cannot be fully separated from other textual forms, which are considered here historiographic (not historical) because of their nature of texts produced subjectively, within a certain political, social and cultural context, irrespective of their assumed scientific objectivity. Literature, it is further argued, has become a discourse-oriented endeavour with an active participation, an idea supported in the present study by making reference to several critical and polemic writings by Salman Rushdie, which, in a topsyturvy, postmodernist manner, are foregrounded before, and not after the literature review proper.

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Burger, Willie. "Historiese korrektheid en historiese fiksie: ’n respons." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 52, no. 2 (February 17, 2015): 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v52i2.6.

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Historical correctness and historical fiction: a responseIn this article the relationship between history and fiction is examined in response to the historian, Fransjohan Pretorius’s criticism of recent Afrikaans fiction about the Anglo-Boer War in Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 52.2 (2015). The intricate relationship between history and fiction is examined by pointing, on the one hand to the problematic of the relationship between history and the past and on the one hand, to the difference between fiction and history. The function of aesthetic illusion, verisimilitude and conceptions of reference is investigated theoretically before turning to the specific novels that Pretorius discusses. The article shows that historical fiction cannot be restricted to novelized versions of accepted history, but that historical fiction also reminds the reader that the past is always culturally mediated and that the primary aim of novels is not to represent the past but to examine aspects of human existence. A comparison between fiction and history can therefore not be used as a norm to assess novels.

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West-Pavlov, Russell. "Proximate historiographies in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s Kintu." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 58, no. 1 (May 7, 2021): 76–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/tl.v58i1.8284.

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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s novel Kintu (2014) places alongside forms of historical fiction familiar to European readers, a form of historical causality that obeys a different logic, namely, one governed by the long-term efficacity of a curse uttered in pre-colonial Buganda. The novel can be read as a historiographical experiment. It sets in a relationship of ‘proximity’ linear historical narration as understood within the framework of European historicism and the genre of the historical novel theorised by Lukács, and notions of magical ‘verbal-incantatory’ and ‘somatic’ history that elude the logic of hegemonic European historicism but nonetheless cohabit the same fictional space. Makumbi’s novel thus sketches an ‘entanglement’ of various historical temporalities that are articulated upon one another within the capacious realm of fiction, thereby reinforcing a cosmic ontology and axiology of reciprocity and fluid duality whose infringement in fact triggers the curse at the origin of the narrative.

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