Neohistorical Fiction and Hannah's Place

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This book draws together new combinations of ideas and takes new investigative directions in dealing with the concept of an experimental historical fiction based on the notion of collaged texts, imagery and meaning. It examines traditional historical fiction for chinks in the hegemonic armour and drives through these towards strategies for recovering lost female voices. Unlike middle class women who wrote diaries and letters, illiterate women did not leave us stories of their colonial Australia. Instead their experiences were recorded in newspaper and archival documents reflecting patriarchal and class ideologies, which represented them as the 'other'. This book in two parts, shows that by working within neohistorical fiction a richer, non-linear view of female experience can be found. Part two, Hannah's Place, plays with the idea of historical facts and fiction. It gives textual equality to the two blurring the borders between them and questioning the reliability of past textual facts as accurate records of lower class women's experience. This compelling multi-layered narrative suggests neohistorical fiction as a form for bringing textual agency to silenced women.