Gendering the colonial narrative
Fictional historiography in Fiona Kidman'sThe Captive Wife
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2178765 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Doreen D’cruz |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 341-353 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2013.801633 |
| OpenAlex | W1967904814 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This article discusses Kidman’s use in The Captive Wife of a hybridized genre that combines historical and fictional material in order to recuperate places for women in the historical imaginary connected with European settlement in New Zealand. Historiography is thus problematized, rendering it a field of competing interpretations, relative to the play of gender, racial and colonial politics. This article explores how Kidman’s narratology supports her fictional historiographic aims that are deployed towards feminist and postcolonial re-evaluations of the early settler history surrounding her protagonist Betty Guard
Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Fictional universe · Historiography · Literature · Narrative · Narratology · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Imaginary · Theology · Wife · Canadian Identity and History · Psychology · Short Stories in Global Literature · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |