Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories?...

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Paloma Fresno-Calleja (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain) Hsu-Ming Teo

Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction

Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories?

Paloma Fresno-Calleja (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain), Hsu-Ming Teo

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English

Routledge
16 December 2024

Literary studies: post-colonial literature

Series: Routledge Research in Women's Literature

Romantic fiction has often involved stories of travel. In narratives of the journey towards love, ""romance"" often involves encounters with ""exotic"" places and peoples. When history is invoked in such stories, the past itself is exoticised and treated as ""other"" to the present to serve the purposes of romanticisation: a narrative strategy by which all manner of things – settings, characters, costumes, customs, consumables – are made to perform a luxuriant otherness that amplifies the experience of love. This volume questions the reparative function of Anglophone romantic historical fiction to ask: can plots of travel and discourses of tourism empower women while narrating stories of healing for the wounds of the past? This is the first volume to consider how romanticised and exoticised women’s historical fiction not only serves the purposes of armchair travel but may also replicate colonial discourse, unintentionally positioning readers as neocolonial, neo-Orientalist cultural voyeurs as well as voyagers.

Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license

Edited by: Paloma Fresno-Calleja (University of the Balearic Islands Spain), Hsu-Ming Teo
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032801773
ISBN 10: 1032801778
Series: Routledge Research in Women's Literature
Pages: 207
Publication Date: 16 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paloma Fresno-Calleja is Professor of English at the University of the Balearic Islands. Her research focuses on New Zealand and Pacific literatures on which she has published book chapters and articles in a number of international journals. She is co-editor (with Hsu-Ming Teo) of Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History (2024), (with Janet Wilson) of Beyond Borders: New Zealand Literature in the Global Marketplace (Routledge, 2023) and (with Melissa Kennedy) of a special issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, ""Island Narratives of Persistence and Resistance"" (2023). She has been lead researcher of two research projects devoted to the study of popular romance and financed by the Spanish government: ""The politics, aesthetics and marketing of literary formulae in popular women’s fiction: History, Exoticism and Romance"" (2016–2020), and ""Romance for Change: Diversity, Intersectionality and Affective Reparation in Contemporary Romantic Narratives"" (2022–2025). Hsu-Ming Teo is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Macquarie University, Australia. Her publications include Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels (2012) and the edited book The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia (2017). She co-edited Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History (2024) with Paloma Fresno-Calleja, The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction (2020) with Jayashree Kamblé and Eric Murphy Selinger, and Cultural History in Australia (2003) with Richard White. She has published widely on popular romance, romantic love, Orientalism, imperialism, historical fiction, and popular culture.

Reviews for Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories?

By insightfully exploring how the use of ‘exotic’ settings as backdrops for stories of female empowerment remains entangled with the legacies of colonialism, this volume ably demonstrates the ongoing tensions between the politics of race and gender in the modern Anglophone travel romance. -Joseph Crawford, Associate Professor, University of Exeter, UK Romantic historical fiction strives to balance fact and reparative fantasy, love and justice. Attentive to the long histories of women’s writing, travel literature, and popular fiction, these essays are the Baedeker we need to understand the genre—and its limits. Long ago and far away, meet the here and now. --Eric Murphy Selinger, Professor, DePaul University, USA