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Number 28 April 2015

Fictional histories and historical fictions: Writing history in the twenty-first century

Edited by Camilla Nelson and Christine de Matos

 

 

Camilla Nelson and Christine de Matos
Fictional histories and historical fictions

Stephen Muecke
A diplomat for the history wars

Tom Griffiths
The intriguing dance of history and fiction

Camilla Nelson
Archival poetics: Writing history from the fragments

Clare Wright
Making The war that changed us: Notes from the frontline of history, television and military remembrance

Hsu-Ming Teo
History, the Holocaust and children’s historical fiction

Andrew Cowan
Writing Worthless men: History and the literary

Ann Curthoys
History as a form of literature: EP Thompson’s The making of the English working class

Christopher Kremmer
From dialectics to dialogue: Bakhtin, White and the ‘moorings’ of fiction and history

Anna Haebich
Somewhere between fiction and non-fiction: New approaches to writing crime histories

Donna Lee Brien
‘The facts formed a line of buoys in the sea of my own imagination’: History, fiction and speculative biography

Christine de Matos
Fictorians: Historians who ‘lie’ about the past, and like it

 

 

 

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TEXT Special Issue No 28 Fictional histories and historical fictions: Writing history in the twenty-first century
April 2015
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Editors: Camilla Nelson & Christine de Matos
TEXT Special Issues Editor: Donna Lee Brien
General Editor: Nigel Krauth
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