Postmodern Romance and the Illusion-Making Tendencies of Historiography

Olivia Bălănescu

doi:10.2478/v10320-012-0010-0

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Postmodern Romance and the Illusion-Making Tendencies of Historiography

Gender Studies

Volume 11 (2012): Issue Supplement (December 2012)

By: Olivia Bălănescu

Open Access

|Dec 2012

Abstract

The paper proposes a reading of romance in terms of postmodernism by establishing a connection between feminism and postmodernism’s questioning of historical and cultural representation. The aim is to reveal how history, no longer governed by the urge to find the “truth”, gives prominence to the uncertain, the extraordinary, the fantastic, which are the main ingredients of romance.

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