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11	Historieskrivning i den samtida historiska romanen : En läsning av Sarah Waters The night watch och Colson Whiteheads The underground railroad Ehn Svensson, Mikaela January 2020 (has links) It has always been important to study history. But what we can’t forget is that there’s more than one way of doing so. One of those is literature. In this thesis I will therefore study two contemporary historical novels: The Night Watch by Sarah Waters and The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. The aim is to explore how they portray different kinds of historical experiences and how that may relate to questions that are relevant even in a contemporary context. Because both novels have an interestning relationship with time and space, I’m going to use the russian literary theorist Micheal Bachtins concept of the chronotope to explore how time and space operates and relate to eachother. In the end, this thesis also aims to show that literature can be a valuable object to study for those that are intererested in histiography. historiography the historical novel contempary literature Sarah Waters The Night Watch Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad Michail Bachtin chronotope time and space historiografi den historiska romanen samtida litteratur Sarah Waters The night watch Colson Whitehead The underground railroad Michail Bachtin kronotop tid och rum History of Ideas Idé- och lärdomshistoria