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This book draws together new combinations of ideas and takes new investigative directions in dealing with the concept of an experimental historical fiction based on the notion of collaged texts, imagery and meaning. It examines traditional historical fiction for chinks in the hegemonic armour and drives through these towards strategies for recovering lost female voices. Unlike middle class women who wrote diaries and letters, illiterate women did not leave us stories of their colonial Australia. Instead their experiences were recorded in newspaper and archival documents reflecting patriarchal…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This book draws together new combinations of ideas
and takes new investigative directions in dealing
with the concept of an experimental historical
fiction based on the notion of collaged texts,
imagery and meaning. It examines traditional
historical fiction for chinks in the hegemonic
armour and drives through these towards strategies
for recovering lost female voices. Unlike middle
class women who wrote diaries and letters, illiterate
women did not leave us stories of their colonial
Australia. Instead their experiences were recorded in
newspaper and archival documents reflecting
patriarchal and class ideologies, which represented
them as the ''other''. This book in two parts, shows
that by working within neohistorical fiction a
richer, non-linear view of female experience can be
found. Part two, Hannah s Place, plays with the idea
of historical facts and fiction. It gives textual
equality to the two blurring the borders between them
and questioning the reliability of past textual facts
as accurate records of lower class women''s
experience. This compelling multi-layered narrative
suggests neohistorical fiction as a form for bringing
textual agency to silenced women.
Autorenporträt
Elanna Herbert is a writer who lives in Canberra,
Australia. She has a BA from ANU, a Grad. Dip. (Professional
Communication) and a Doctorate in Communication (Creative) from
University of Canberra. Her work has appeared in anthologies and
journals in Australia and New Zealand. Her award winning
book ''Frieda & the Cops'' appeared in 2005.