History made, history imagined : contemporary literature, poiesis, and the past /
Price, David W.(David Walter),1957-
Urbana : University of Illinois Press,
c1999.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-329) and index.
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.
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