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This is the beginning of a historical novel set in 1960’s Little Rock, Arkansas. The main character, Elsie Robinson, is forced to come home from her life in New York because of the sudden death of her father. She stays to look after her mother. She then meets Freddie, a white man, who somehow feels completely comfortable in her black community. In a time when everything seems to be falling apart, Freddie is a beam of light. If only their relationship weren’t illegal.

This mystery is set in the early 1980s and based on actual events. A high-school student unearths dark and deadly secrets of his Appalachian community. The explosive consequences forever mark his own life, his family's, and his town's.
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Neo-Victorian studies is a burgeoning subfield which seeks to examine contemporary representations of the Victorian period. For the last decade, neo-Victorian scholars have offered up definitions of what makes a text “neo-Victorian”; often, this has been via a description of what the neo-Victorian is not. The ‘ruling’ definition—i.e., the definition most consistently repeated—hails from the introduction to Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century by Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn: “the Neo-Victorian is more than historical fiction set in the nineteenth century. […] texts (literary, filmic, audio/visual) must in some respect be self-consciously engaged with the act of (re)interpretation, (re)discovery and (re)vision concerning the Victorians” (4). This short delineation significantly comes at the expense of historical fiction, which is a move repeated throughout neo-Victorian efforts to define itself. Neo-Victorian studies has largely concerned itself with literary novels, operating with a heavy anxiety that ‘other’ fiction set in the nineteenth century is escapist and nostalgic in the sense that it simply perpetuates problematic past systems of oppression while evoking the fashionable aesthetic trappings of the Victorian. My dissertation argues that contemporary genre fiction, long derided as ‘simply’ escapist in nature, can also be neo-Victorian. In each of my chapters I analyze texts from a specific genre—steampunk, popular romance, detective fiction, and Sherlock Holmes pastiche—in order to offer a basis for investigating genre fiction with a neo-Victorian lens. I analyze the depiction of corsets and feminist protagonists in three steampunk novels, explore the exhibition of unlikely romantic heroines and Romany romantic heroes in Lisa Kleypas’ historical romance series about the Hathaway family, examine representations of class and gender as well as germane social issues in Anne Perry’s William Monk detective series, and highlight the feminist potential of Carole Nelson Douglas’ series of Sherlock Holmes pastiche featuring Irene Adler. Each chapter considers the Victorian period as represented alongside Victorian novels and literary periodicals in order to demonstrate the shape of these neo-Victorian revisions and make the case the genre fiction can be self-conscious despite its lack of metafictional content.

During the Arabic cultural renaissance of the nineteenth century known as the nahda, Christian Arabs made a substantial contribution to the development of fiction and journalism. Among these pioneers, Salim al-Bustani, Jurji Zaydan, and Farah Antun were inspired by translations of European fiction to write the first historical novels in Arabic. Their narrations of the Muslim wars of conquest are carefully constructed blends of history and fiction that emphasize the cultural and religious values that Christian and Muslim Arabs hold in common. In their novels, these authors celebrate the historical achievements of the Arabs and seek to inspire a new sense of Arab cultural identity, open to Christians and Muslims alike and based on shared language, history, territory, values, and aspirations for reform. In this way, these authors respond to the sectarian tensions of their time, European imperialism, and the challenges of modernism with ideas that would become central to Arab nationalist discourse in the twentieth century.

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Under the premise that our history is constituted under the impact of catastrophes, and that in this context, writing a historical novel will never be a neutral gesture, this paper proposes to investigate the historical novel in contemporary Brazilian fiction, from the perspective of theory and literary creation. This work proposes a hypothesis for the hypothesis of the hypothesis of Lukács (2011), Jameson (2007), Perry Anderson (2007), Linda Hutcheon (1991), Esteves (2010) and Weinhardt (2011) and Bastos (2007). the reading of the contemporary historical novel. From two key notions, 1) what will be defined in this work as a spectrum logic, 2) and writing as a burial rite, the central premise of this work is to look at history as a fundamentally necromantic practice. These notions are tested, or developed, from the critical reading of two contemporary works: O marechal de costas, by José Luiz Passos (2016) and De mim já nem se lembra, by Luiz Ruffato (2015). If the sign (sema) is a tomb and the writing of history and the relationship with the past is a kind of burial rite (as Jeanne-Marie Gagnebin asserts, in the wake of Michel de Certeau), which separates the past from the present world of the living dead of the world), the past not properly elaborated, not buried, returns as specter: and haunts and defiles the present. In this sense, it is possible to read the contemporary historical novel as a kind of attempt to burial the specters of the past that haunt the present. In the practical section, this work presents a novel, a historical fiction, freely inspired by the figure of Januário Garcia Leal
Sob a premissa que nossa história se constitui sob impacto de catástrofes, e que, nesse contexto, escrever um romance histórico nunca será um gesto neutro, esse trabalho se propõe a investigar o romance histórico na ficção contemporânea brasileira, da perspectiva da teoria e da criação literária. Sem abandonar totalmente as concepções de Lukács, (2011), Jameson (2007), Perry Anderson (2007), Linda Hutcheon (1991), Esteves (2010) e Weinhardt (2011) e Bastos (2007), esse trabalho propõe uma hipótese para a leitura do romance histórico contemporâneo. A partir de duas noções chave, 1) aquilo que será definido nesse trabalho como lógica do espectro, 2) e a escrita enquanto rito de sepultamento, a premissa central deste trabalho é olhar para a história enquanto prática fundamentalmente necromante. Essas noções são testadas, ou desenvolvidas, a partir da leitura crítica de duas obras contemporâneas: O Marechal de costas, de José Luiz Passos (2016) e De mim já nem se lembra, de Luiz Ruffato (2015). Se o signo (séma) é um túmulo e a escrita da história e a relação com o passado uma espécie de rito de sepultamento (como afirma Jeanne-Marie Gagnebin, na esteira de Michel de Certeau), que separa o passado do presente (o mundo dos mortos do mundo vivos), o passado não devidamente elaborado, não enterrado, retorna como espectro: e assombra e contamina o presente. Nesse sentido, é possível ler o romance histórico contemporâneo como uma espécie de tentativa de sepultamento dos espectros do passado que assombram o presente. Na seção prática, esse trabalho apresenta um romance, uma ficção histórica, livremente inspirada da figura de Januário Garcia Leal

The reading and buying market for Afrikaans fiction is limited due to historical and economical reasons. It can thus be argued that in order to expand the market for South African Afrikaans trade publishers and authors' novels, a work needs to be translated via the selling of translation rights with the assistance of the publisher or literary agents, into a language that has similar needs in terms of cultural consumption, for example book reading culture. Due to the colonial influence of the Dutch on South African culture and the development of Afrikaans, this study explores the selling of translation rights of Afrikaans fiction to trade publishers in The Netherlands and Belgium. The polystem theory is also used to illustrate the movement of languages from a peripheral position to semi-peripheral and central position within a global literary polysystem. A qualitative and exploratory research design is used. Secondary research in the form of a literature review combines theoretical information, clarifies terms and provides context from which primary research develops. In terms of primary research, interviews with key informants in the Belgian, Netherlands and South African publishing industry were conducted. Case studies of South African crime author Deon Meyer, and historical romance author Irma Joubert provide in-depth analysis of success factors, process and factors that influenced the selling of subsidiary rights to Dutch trade publishers. Lastly, visibility and discoverability of Afrikaans fiction on an international rights trading platform, as well as interaction amongst South African and foreign publishers were observed, at the largest book rights fair, the Frankfurt Book Fair. The findings of this study provide practical information and act as reference guide to role players in the publishing industry, including authors, trade publishers and literary agents. Recommendations for best practice in the selling of subsidiary rights are included, as well as initiatives for further research, experimentation, investment and development of the selling of subsidiary rights to European trade publishers to ultimately grow the Afrikaans fiction book buying and reading markets.
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This thesis concerns the function of fiction in the creation of an historical myth and the uses that that myth is put to in a number of periods and differing régimes. Its case study is the popular myth of August the Strong (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, as a man of extraordinary sexual prowess and the ruler over a magnificent, but frivolous, court in Dresden. It examines the origins of this myth in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, and its development up to the twenty-first century in German history writing, fiction, art, and media. The image August created for himself in the art, literature, and festivities of his court as an ideal ruler of extremely broad cultural and intellectual interests and high political ambitions and abilities linked him closely with eighteenth-century notions of galanterie. This narrowed the scope of his image later, especially as nineteenth-century historians selected fictional sources and interpreted them as historical sources to present August as an immoral political failure. Although nineteenth-century popular writers exhibited a more varied response to August’s historical role, the negative historiography continued to resonate in later history writing. Ironically, the myth of August the Strong represented an opportunity in the GDR in creating and fostering a sense of identity, first as a socialist state with historical and cultural links to the east, and then by examining Prusso-Saxon history as a uniquely (East) German issue. Finally, the thesis examines the practice of historical re-enactment as it is currently employed in a number of variations on German TV and in literature, and its impact on historical knowledge. The thesis concludes that, while narrative forms are necessary to history and fiction, and fiction is a necessary part of presenting history, inconsistent combinations of the two can undermine the projects of both.

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This study discusses the identity construction and interpellation in Brazilian contemporary literature through historical novel and historiographical metafiction, concepts studied by Györg Lukács and Linda Hutcheon, respectively. These two subgenres reveal a relation that is different from the truthful events in which the novel is based. The historical novel, emerged in 19th century, uses them to attest their fictional verisimilitude, and in the national context, it has joined the taskwork to build a Brazilian identity. The historiographical metafiction, which emerged in the second half of 20th century, uses the truthful events to question, destabilize and rewrite them. Nove noites, from the author Bernardo Carvalho, gets close to this second subgenre. However, a survey of Carvalho s critical fortune has indicated a supposed inverisimilitude trace in his literary production; this discovery questions not only the historical speech, but also the fiction itself. From this starting point, our study is going to investigate, especially in the chosen novel, the bounds between fiction and reality (linked to history) and identity and non-identity in a dialog with the historical novel and the historiographical metafiction. Presenting also Carvalho s critical production, it s evident in this research that he appreciates an experimental and inventive fiction, and denies trends and common sense in relation to literature. Therefore, this research challenges the hypothesis that, by one side, Nove noites has some historiographical metafiction characteristics and points out to a non-identity dimension, concept used by Italo Moriconi to define the crisis in which the Latin-American thought has been facing in this globalized scenery. In the other hand, when he destabilizes his own construction of sense, he overacts the subgenre in which he was primarily associated and strengthen, in another level, the position the writer registers in this critical texts
Este estudo discute a questão da construção e interpelação da identidade na literatura contemporânea brasileira pela via do romance histórico e da metaficção historiográfica, estudados por Györg Lukács e Linda Hutcheon, respectivamente. Essas duas vertentes do gênero literário romance revelam uma díspar relação com os acontecimentos verídicos de que se apropriam. O romance histórico, surgido no século XIX, utiliza-os para atestar a sua verossimilhança ficcional e, no contexto nacional, aliou-se à empreitada de formar uma identidade aos brasileiros. Ao passo que a metaficção historiográfica, que surgiu já na segunda metade do século XX, vale-se deles para questioná-los, desestabilizá-los e reescrevê-los. Nove noites, do ficcionista e crítico Bernardo Carvalho, aproxima-se dessa segunda vertente. Contudo, um levantamento da fortuna crítica desse escritor indicou um traço supostamente inverossímil em sua produção literária, que põe em xeque o sentido não apenas do discurso histórico, mas também da própria ficção. É partindo disso que este estudo objetiva investigar as fronteiras entre ficção e realidade (atrelada à história) e identidade e desidentidade em diálogo com o romance histórico e com a metaficção historiográfica. Apresentando também sua produção crítica, torna-se patente, nesta pesquisa, que Carvalho valoriza uma ficção experimental, inventiva, e refuta modismos e lugares-comuns em relação à literatura. Por isso, este trabalho coloca à prova a hipótese de que, por um lado, Nove noites, possuidor de características da metaficção historiográfica, ilustra e aponta para a dimensão da desidentidade, termo utilizado por Italo Moriconi para definir a crise pela qual o pensamento latino-americano tem passado no cenário globalizado. Por outro, o romance de Bernardo Carvalho, ao desestabilizar sua própria construção de sentido, extrapola a vertente a que inicialmente se associa, reforçando, em outro nível, o posicionamento que o escritor registra em seus textos críticos

Cette étude se place dans le champ des études transatlantiques afin d’analyser les modalités selon lesquelles les romances historiques ont constitué une réponse aux exigences lancinantes de doter les États-Unis d’une littérature nationale dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle. Créé en Grande-Bretagne par Walter Scott, ce genre est repris et adapté par ses contemporains américains, en particulier James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving et Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Dans un premier temps, nous avons étudié la réception de Walter Scott et de ses Waverley Novels et leur impact sur le marché du livre américain. Une analyse, notamment, des journaux qui fleurissent lors du regain de patriotisme de l’après-Guerre de 1812, a permis de montrer que se côtoient alors panégyriques de Walter Scott et appels récurrents à l’émergence d’un « Scott américain ». C’est ensuite la réponse des auteurs américains que nous avons étudiée. S’ils adoptent certains codes génériques scottiens afin de répondre à la volonté nationale de mettre en scène l’Histoire américaine, Cooper, Irving et Sedgwick font de leurs romances historiques le vecteur privilégié d’une mise en valeur de la matière américaine : une Histoire riche en événements, des ancêtres à célébrer, un territoire national aux propriétés spécifiques, qui la mettront sur un pied d’égalité avec les nations européennes. Alors que les romanciers utilisent leurs œuvres pour promouvoir une nation américaine culturellement distincte, s’opère une recomposition générique. La romance historique se fait alors le lieu d’une mythogenèse pour l’Amérique via l’écriture d’une épopée nationale, qui permet de remonter les âges vers une temporalité indéfinie afin de fonder la Jeune République en une nation organique, digne de soutenir la comparaison avec ses homologues outre-Atlantique
This work, belonging to the field of transatlantic studies, analyses to what extend historical romances formed a response to the ongoing wish to provide the United States with a national literature in the first half of the nineteenth century. The genre, fashioned in Great Britain by Walter Scott, was taken up and adapted by his American contemporaries, and in particular, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick. The first chapter tackles the reception of Walter Scott and of his Waverley Novels, and their impact on the American book market. Our analysis in particular of the newspapers and periodicals that flourished in the surge of patriotism following the War of 1812, has enabled us to show that the panegyrics for Walter Scott stood just alongside the recurrent calls in the same pages for the birth of an “American Scott.” The response given by the American authors forms the second part of our analysis. As they appropriate some of the generic traits of the Scottian historical romance in order to comply to the nation’s wish for a portrayal of American history, Cooper, Irving, and Sedgwick use the genre to showcase the American matter – a history full of events worth narrating, ancestors worth celebrating, and a national territory with its own features – that would bring the United States on a level with the European nations. As the writers thus promote a culturally distinct American nation, the genre gradually morphs into a form of national epic. Through this mythogenesis at work in the writings under study, the United States are given a timeline that dissolves into an indeterminate temporality, thereby shaping the Early Republic as an organic nation, fit for contention with its transatlantic counterparts

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Based upon the hybrid history and fiction narratives, as possibilities of reinterpreting the past, we proposed a research that aimed at establishing possible approximations among a series of historical short stories selected from the book Amores Insólitos de nuestra historia (2001), by María Rosa Lojo, with the most recent theoretical approach about the mediation contemporary historical novel, which reveals the mixture of a-critical modalities - the classical and the traditional - with deconstructionist aspects – historical novels of Latin American and historiographic metafictions. In the short stories, as well as in the novels of the most recent modality, we saw a hybrid plot that Fleck (2017) classifies as being a "mediator" between traditionalism and the Latin American criticism / deconstructionism. From the point of view of Lojo's past (2001), we intend to highlight the conquest and the settlement of America through her short narratives, which privileges the expression of excluded voices, as they are not considered by the hegemonic history perspective and which, in many fictional narratives, the Argentinean identity is portrayed under the perspective of the unusual love of female protagonists. This way, we reveal about the possible actions of literature in the face of this silencing, especially, when it comes to the female voice in historiographical reports, with emphasis on the perspectives of the past recorded in the annals of history and reinterpreted by fiction. The corpus that served as the basis for this study and analysis are compound of four short stories from the selected work, being: “La historia que Ruy Díaz no escribió” (p. 45-64), “El Maestro y la Reina de las Amazonas” (p. 127-145), “Amar a un hombre feo” (p. 191-213), and “Otra historia del Guerrero y de la Cautiva” (p. 215-245). Furthermore, as inserted in studies proposals of hybrid genres of history and fiction, carried by the Research Group "Reinterpreting the past in America: processes of reading, writing and translation of hybrid genres of history and fiction - pathways to decolonization", we highlight how the characters are represented on the historical extraction of Lojo's short stories, and, we point out at the mediating aspects that constitute these narratives. The theoretical basis that allowed us to establish the relationship between the hybrid historical novel and historical short tale are anchored in studies by Aínsa (1991), Menton (1993), Fernández Prieto (2003), Esteves (2010), Fleck (2011; 2017), among others.
Com base nas narrativas híbridas de história e ficção como possibilidades de releitura do passado, a pesquisa efetuada procurou estabelecer as aproximações possíveis entre uma série de contos históricos selecionados da obra Amores Insólitos de nuestra historia (2001), de María Rosa Lojo, com os pressupostos teóricos mais recentes sobre o gênero romance histórico contemporâneo de mediação, o qual revela a mescla de aspectos das modalidades acríticas – clássica e tradicional – com os aspectos daquelas mais desconstrucionistas – novos romances históricos latino-americanos e metaficções historiográficas. Nos contos, assim como nos romances da modalidade mais recente, vimos uma escrita híbrida que Fleck (2017) classifica como “mediadora” entre o tradicionalismo e o criticismo/desconstrucionismo latino-americano. Sob a ótica da releitura do passado de Lojo (2001), evidenciamos a conquista e povoação da América por meio de narrativas curtas que privilegiam a expressão das vozes excluídas, que não foram consideradas pela história hegemônica e que, em muitas narrativas ficcionais, são as protagonistas dos amores insólitos retratados na construção da própria identidade argentina. Dessa maneira, revelamos as possíveis ações da literatura frente a este silenciamento, principalmente, da voz feminina nos relatos historiográficos, com ênfase às perspectivas do passado registradas nos anais da história e ressignificadas pela ficção. O corpus que serviu de base para o estudo parte da análise de quatro contos da obra selecionada: “La historia que Ruy Díaz no escribió” (p. 45-64), “El Maestro y la Reina de las Amazonas” (p. 127-145), “Amar a un hombre feo” (p. 191-213) e “Otra historia del Guerrero y de la Cautiva” (p. 215-245). Desse modo, inseridos nas propostas dos estudos sobre gêneros híbridos de história e ficção, impulsionados pelo Grupo de Pesquisa “Ressignificações do passado na América: processos de leitura, escrita e tradução de gêneros híbridos de história e ficção – vias para a descolonização”, evidenciamos como se dá a representação das personagens de extração histórica na contística de Lojo e, especificamos os aspectos mediadores que constituem essas narrativas. Os pressupostos teóricos que nos permitiram estabelecer a relação entre os gêneros híbridos romance histórico e conto histórico estão ancorados em estudos de Aínsa (1991), Menton (1993), Fernández Prieto (2003), Esteves (2010), Fleck (2011; 2017), entre outros.

Mary Reibey was Australia’s most successful convict-cum-businesswoman. This thesis consists of two components: an exegesis and a novella, Molly Haydock. The exegetical component outlines the known facts of Reibey’s life, reveals previously unknown details concerning Reibey, and explores the significance of her story to her descendants and the wider Australian community. It weighs the benefits of fiction against those of non-fiction, arguing that historical fiction can function as thought experiments, to facilitate reader engagement in a way that non-fiction cannot. A review of existing novels concerning Reibey demonstrates the need for a less romanticised treatment of her life than currently exists. This thesis explores Reibey’s historical context, and surveys the representation of women in Australian history (particularly but not exclusively colonial women). It traces a specific contemporary legacy of this representation–matriduxy, or the alleged domestic dominance of women in Australian families–and argues that masochistic and other cultural elements in the colonial era may have contributed to the genesis of this phenomenon. This examination of the possible origin of matriduxy is pursued in part via an analysis of Christina Stead’s modernist novel, The Man Who Loved Children. In this exegesis I outline some of the research processes and creative decision-making strategies involved in writing Molly Haydock, and identify a need for further historical research into specific aspects of Reibey’s life. I also explore issues surrounding indigeneity and frontier stories, and argue for a more balanced depiction of the spectrum of First Nations’ experiences and responses to the invasion, which ranged from victimisation to resilience and adaptation. I conclude that there is a need for more works of historical fiction accurately representing the intelligence and adaptability that have led to the current success of First Nations people. Molly Haydock synthesises the known outline of Reibey’s life with material uncovered during the research, and incorporates as much background detail concerning Reibey’s historical and geographical contexts as possible, within the narrative constraints of fiction. Molly Haydock imagines possible motivations for Reibey, and creates glimpses of what she may have seen and heard, thought and felt, during the foundational era of Australia as a modern nation.

O presente trabalho, intitulado A Madeira e o Mundo: Ficção e História em João França e António Loja, visa explorar aspetos de um imaginário insular a partir de três romances históricos, com protagonistas e cenários madeirenses, escritos por dois autores originários do arquipélago da Madeira. Para tal, constituímos o corpus com os seguintes romances: por um lado, A Ilha e o Tempo, de 1972, e António e Isabel do Arco da Calheta, lançado em 1985, do escritor João França (1908-1996), obras literárias que podemos considerar como ficções de fundação (em prol de uma identidade regional do arquipélago da Madeira); por outro, o romance Regressos, editado em 2008 e materializado em dois volumes, de António Loja (1934), cujo enredo, ambientado na época da Restauração da Independência de Portugal, pode ser entendido como a ficção da autodeterminação dos povos e, concomitantemente, a ficção do direito à felicidade a que todo o ser humano aspira. Ficando assim explicada a seleção das obras em análise, o propósito da nossa abordagem é o de pensar as relações entre História e Ficção, contribuindo não somente para o reconhecimento de épocas historicamente significativas como também para o estudo do imaginário local que dialoga com o contexto insular e universal. Num primeiro passo, procuraremos entender a narrativa histórica para melhor apreender o corpus selecionado; seguidamente, debruçar-nos-emos sobre os textos de João França de modo a destacar o cenário histórico e as suas fontes em que assenta a narrativa de ficção, por forma, também, a valorizar uma escrita que tende para uma certa modernidade, fundada numa desassombrada consciência humanista e utópica; finalmente, analisaremos o romance Regressos, de António Loja, sublinhando nos seus diversos espaços retratados não somente o contexto madeirense, lugar onde começa (descontado o cenário de Coimbra do primeiro capítulo) e termina a ação romanesca, mas, sobretudo, relevando os vários países e regiões do mundo que o protagonista vai percorrer, o que permite à ficção romanesca encenar um diálogo com outras culturas e diferentes modos de pensamento. Este corpus permitir-nos-á, pois, mostrar a relação que ambos os escritores têm com a sua terra, com os costumes, com as suas gentes, mas, de igual modo, entender a preocupação em retratar uma realidade nacional e internacional, num século distante e num período conturbado da história que abrange o final do século XV e vai sensivelmente até meados do século XVII.
This work, entitled Madeira and the World: Fiction and History in João França and António Loja, aims to explore aspects of an imaginary island from three historical novels, with protagonists and Madeira scenarios, written by two authors originating in Madeira. To this end, we constitute the corpus with the following novels: on the one hand, A Ilha e o Tempo, de 1972, and António e Isabel do Arco da Calheta, released in 1985, writer João França (1908-1996), literary works that can be considered as founding fictions (in favor of a regional identity of the Madeira archipelago); on the other, the novel Regressos, published in 2008 and materialized in two volumes, António loja (1934), whose plot, set during the Restoration of Independence of Portugal, it can be understood as the fiction of self-determination and, concomitantly, the fiction of the right to happiness to which every human being aspires. Thus being explained the selection of the works in question, the purpose of our approach is to think about the relationship between history and fiction, contributing not only to the recognition of historically significant eras as well as for the study of imaginary place that dialogue with the island and universal context. In a first step, we seek to understand the historical narrative to better grasp the selected corpus; then, we will focus on João França texts in order to highlight the historical setting and the sources on which the fictional narrative, in order, also, to value a writing that tends to a certain modernity, founded a fearless humanist consciousness and utopian; finally, we will analyze the novel Regressos, of António Loja, emphasizing in its various spaces portrayed not only the Madeiran context, where starts ( discounting the scenario of Coimbra the first chapter ) and ends the novelistic action, but especially emphasizing the various countries and regions of the world that the protagonist will go, allowing the novelistic fiction stage a dialogue with other cultures and different ways of thinking. This corpus allows us to show the relationship that both writers have with their land, with customs, with people, but, equally, understand the concern to portray a national and international reality in a distant century and a troubled period of history covering the end of the fifteenth century and will significantly until the mid-seventeenth century.