Subgenre Spotlight: History’s ‘New Perspectives’
Sarah at Reader’s Advisory Online Blog is launching a new feature, called Subgenre Spotlight. The first article is on a subgenre of (non-fiction) History called ‘New Perspectives.’ Here’s her description of that subgenre: These books offer “offering facts and evidence garnered through extensive research, but their authors often interpret those facts in new ways, and seek to expose historical theories or stories that they believe have been hidden or misrepresented. They provide the ‘other side’ of the typically accepted historical stories, with the hope that they may change how history is perceived. Many are written from the points of view of marginalized or minority populations.” She provides a short list of representative titles.
Filed under: readers advisory, history on August 22nd, 2007