History made, history imagined
Subtitle: contemporary literature, poiesis, and the past
By: David W. Price.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: History -- Philosophy.; History -- Methodology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-329) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: contending with history; title: Making the truth: history, fiction, and philosophy; title: Imagining the past: Carlos Fuentes's Terra nostra; title: Experiencing the past: Susan Daitch's L.C.; title: Critiquing the past: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children; title: Redeeming the past: Michel Tournier's Le roi des aulnes; title: Improvising the past: Ishmael Reed's Mumbo jumbo; title: Narrating the past: Graham Swift's Waterland; title: Inventing the past: Mario Vargas Llosa's El hablador; title: Postscript: Annihilating the past.