History made, history imagined : contemporary literature, poiesis, and the past / David W. Price.

Author/creator Price, David W., 1957-
Format Book
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1999.
Descriptionx, 338 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction: contending with history -- Making the truth: history, fiction, and philosophy -- Imagining the past: Carlos Fuentes's Terra nostra -- Experiencing the past: Susan Daitch's L.C. -- Critiquing the past: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- Redeeming the past: Michel Tournier's Le roi des aulnes -- Improvising the past: Ishmael Reed's Mumbo jumbo -- Narrating the past: Graham Swift's Waterland -- Inventing the past: Mario Vargas Llosa's El hablador -- Postscript: annihilating the past.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [315]-329) and index.
LCCN 98058031
ISBN0252024680 (alk. paper)
ISBN0252067762 (paperback : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks D16.8 .P737 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold