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Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women's Writing. Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewelyn (Eds)
University of Wales, Cardiff, UK
2007. Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp. xi + 222. £45
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History—as at once a site of fact and fiction, consensus and contestation, ideology and materiality—has provided a particular and powerful imaginative resource for women writers over the past few decades. Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women's Writing contributes to critical debates about these heterogeneous engagements with the "literary" and the "historical," situating its discussion in relation to broader projects of feminist revisioning