Date: Wednesday 12 February 2025
Time: 18.00 to 19.00
Location: Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation, 36 Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02 CH22.
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Dr Catherine Barbour will launch her book called ‘Women’s Historical Fiction Across the Globe’ at an event in the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation. This event features a discussion between co-editor Dr Catherine Barbour, and volume contributor Mariana Villegas Triay, both from the Department of Hispanic Studies, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Trinity College Dublin.
Women’s Historical Fiction Across the Globe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) co-edited by Catherine Barbour and Karunika Kardak explores contemporary women’s historical fiction from global perspectives and expands substantially on existing studies by drawing 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 colonial, heteropatriarchal ‘official’ histories. The collection addresses how women writers utilise the genre to reclaim personal and collective memory as well as write back into history marginalised, oppressed and overlooked subjectivities, especially those of racialised, migrant, disabled, LGBTQIA+ and other minoritised communities.
Chapter 1 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com, thanks to the generous support of Trinity College Dublin Trust.
Further information on the launch is available from Dr Catherine Barbour <barbourc@tcd.ie>
Please see also the Trinity Centre for Cultural and Literary Translation events website.
