Research Details
Subject Area: Creative writing
Supervisor: Dr Francesca Rhydderch, Dr Anne Lauppe-Dunbar
Research Degree: PhD
Thesis Title: Rewriting Women into History: A Study of Feminist Mesanarratives
Rewriting Women into History: A Study of Feminist Mesanarratives
Research Synopsis
My research explores the feminist approach in creating individualised narratives, what I call mesanarratives (mesa meaning ‘into or within content’), by critically examining three historical fiction novels that were published during third-wave feminism: Diamant’s The Red Tent, Atwood’s Alias Grace, and Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring.
A feminist mesanarrative is an attempt at bringing the smaller narratives at the forefront while deconstructing the sexual politics and language of misogyny.
