History and memory in the two souths
Subtitle: recent Southern and Spanish American fiction
By: Deborah N. Cohn.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Nashville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism; Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism; Literature and history -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Spanish American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature and history -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century; Historical fiction, Spanish American -- History and criticism; Literature, Comparative -- American and Spanish American; Literature, Comparative -- Spanish American and American; Autobiographical memory in literature; Memory in literature; Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-; Southern States -- In literature; Latin America -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the U.S. South and Spanish America: neighboring spaces and the search for meaning in difficult pasts; title: The case of the fabricated facts: invented information and the problems of reconstructing the past in Absalom, Absalom! and the real life of Alejandro Mayta; title: To see or not to see: invisibility, clairvoyance, and re-visions of history in Invisible man and The house of the spirits; title: Paradise lost and regained: the old order and memory in the Miranda stories and Pedro Páramo; title: Conclusion: race and place in identity and history; title: Notes; title: Works cited; title: Index.