The Real, the True, and the Told : Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation /
"Much theorization in the wake of Hayden White suggests that history is little better than fiction in its professed goal of representing the "truth" of the past, particularly because of its reliance on the narrative form. While postmodern fiction is often read as reflecting and/or rep...
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2011]
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Table of Contents:
- "Memory as forgetting" : historical reference, ethics, and postmodernist fiction
- The pageantry of the past and the reflection of the present : history, reality, and feminism in Virginia Woolf's Between the acts
- "A knife blade called now" : historiography, narrativity, and the "here and now" in Graham Swift's Waterland
- "What's real and what's true" : metaphors, errata, and the shadow of the real in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children
- "It's enough stories" : truth and experience in Art Spiegelman's Maus
- Expanding the field.