The Postmodern Challenge of Historiography in Contemporary Canadian Fiction: Kate Pullinger's Weird Sister and the Silent Voices in History

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Result on the web

<a href="https://absa.upce.cz/index.php/absa/article/view/2431" target="_blank" >https://absa.upce.cz/index.php/absa/article/view/2431</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.46585/absa.2022.15.2431" target="_blank" >10.46585/absa.2022.15.2431</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Postmodern Challenge of Historiography in Contemporary Canadian Fiction: Kate Pullinger's Weird Sister and the Silent Voices in History

Original language description

As defined by Georg G. Iggers and promoted by Hayden White, the postmodern challenge of historiography calls into question the objective enquiry and truth value of history writing. Many works of fiction have embodied this trend, embracing the challenge by exploring objectivity and the retrievability of the past. In contemporary Canadian literature, such cases are also to be found. The novel Weird Sister (1999) by Kate Pullinger thematizes history and history writing, utilizes Gothic elements, and employs the elements of historiographic metafiction, e.g. as characterized by Linda Hutcheon. The book features characters representing the so‐called silent voices whose testimony had remained lost in the official historical record. This paper aims to show that the depiction of the impossibility of uncovering the truth about the past represents a significant contribution by contemporary fiction authors to the postmodern challenge of historiography, with Pullinger’s novel emerging as a notable contribution to this discourse.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60204 - General literature studies

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

American &amp; British Studies Annual

ISSN

1803-6058

e-ISSN

2788-2233

Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

neuvedeno

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

74-88

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85145745979