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

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60204 - General literature studies

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

American &amp; British Studies Annual

ISSN

1803-6058

e-ISSN

2788-2233

Svazek periodika

15

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

neuvedeno

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

15

Strana od-do

74-88

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85145745979