The Woman's Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000 (review)

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 531-533
Author(s):  
David James
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Historical Novel

scholarly journals Gender, Memory, and Interculturality in Caroline de la Motte Fouqué’s Historical Novel Die Vertriebenen

Romantik ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Elisa Müller-Adams
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Scholarly Research ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
German Nation ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Early Restoration

<p>Caroline de la Motte Fouqué was one of the most productive women writers of the romantic and early Restoration period in Germany. This author of numerous novels and shorter prose has been re-valued by gender-orientated scholarly research as a writer who ‘transgressed a number of gender and class boundaries’.1 As an observer of the Zeitgeist and as a political writer, Fouqué was concerned with women’s role in society and their contribution to the formation of a possible German nation. These political issues are not only discussed in her so-called Zeitromane, but are also central in her historical fiction, where also national and cultural boundaries are constantly crossed. Focussing on Fouqué’s historical novel Die Vertriebenen (1823) [The displaced], the article combines perspectives on gender and intercultural issues to examine the function of narratives of foreign history in Fouqué’s historiographical writing.</p>

Egypt until 1959

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Allen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women Writers ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Travel Narrative ◽  
Modern Arabic ◽  
Muhammad Husayn Haykal ◽  
Cultural Movement

This chapter examines the development of the novel in Egypt until 1959, focusing on its chronology and literary characteristics. It begins with an overview of the Egyptian novel genre and its narrative precedents, along with its connection to the cultural movement of the nineteenth century known as al-Nahḍa. After discussing al-Nahḍa’s two primary sources of inspiration, iqtibās (borrowing) and iḥyā’ (revival), the chapter considers the early periods in the development of modern Arabic narrative in Egypt. It also explores the emergence of the travel narrative and the historical novel, the rise of women writers, and the revival of the maqāma. Finally, it analyzes the novel Zaynab, published in 1913 by Muḥammad Ḥusayn Haykal, and novels published from the 1930s to the year 1959.

scholarly journals Transmutation and Temporality: Shifting Figures of African Women in Jennifer Makumbi’s Historical Novel Kintu (2014)

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-222
Author(s):  
Jeremiah Mutuku Muneeni ◽  
Justus Kizito Siboe Makokha ◽  
Esther Katheu Mbithi
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Women Characters ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
African Women ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
African Women Writers ◽  
Unique Style

The role of African women writers in employing the unique style of presenting several generations of women characters in the same historical novel to narrate how the world of women has been transformed across time cannot be naysaid. Through this style, female authors have been able to re-examine, re-construct, re-structure and re-invent the (mis)representation of female gender as construed by male authors who were the first to acquire formal education and embark in creative writing. Thus the choice of this distinctive style often serves as an important marker of backdating the true depiction of women across the historical trajectory as well as demonstrating the gainful transmutation that women have gone through towards their liberation from the chains of patriarchy. Among the African women writers who have adopted this style is Jeniffer Makumbi the author of Kintu. Grounded in both New historicist and feminist theoretical frameworks, we interrogate how women have gradually and gainfully changed towards liberation across the four epochs specific to Africa; namely: Pre-colonial, Colonial, postcolonial and contemporary. Using purposively selected Jenniffer Makumbi’s novel – Kintu – the article provides a textual analysis of the behaviours, speeches and actions exhibited by different generations of female characters who fall within the aforementioned epochs to demonstrate their historical transmutation towards liberation.

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