Abstract

To write for the young in twenty-first-century Britain is to engage with the highly charged discourses of race, identity, and history. Accordingly, this paper examines the novels of three writers who have made the appropriation of marginalized sensibilities the central premise of their historical fictions. It considers how these writers ask what certain past events might mean for a marginalized group’s understanding of its present interests and future prospects as well as asking how to reinvent Britain’s past and present for those who are marginalized by a dominant ideology.

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