Women's Historical Fiction Across the Globe

This book explores contemporary women's historical fiction from global perspectives and challenges existing studies of historical fiction to date. It draws on intersectional, transnational and decolonial approaches to examine texts originating in different languages and engaging with diverse time periods, contexts and cultural settings. The chapters explore how the genre of women's historical fiction unearths women's historical experiences and adds to historical narratives in order to counter and challenge heteropatriarchal 'official' histories. The collection addresses how women writers, especially racialised, migrant, LGBTQIA+ and other minoritised communities, utilise the genre to reclaim personal and collective memory as well as write marginalised, oppressed and overlooked subjectivities back into history.