Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe
Organisers: Karunika Kardak (IMLR) and Catherine Barbour (University of Surrey)This online symposium invites abstracts for 20-minute papers on historical fiction by women writers across languages, time periods and cultural settings. The aim is to facilitate a dialogue between scholars working on and/or from the Global South and North on intersectional feminist approaches to women’s histories and literary texts.We invite papers which explore how the genre unearths women’s historical experiences, retrieves them from the archive and fills gaps in historical narratives through fiction in order...