The Usable Past: The Imagination of History in Recent Fiction of the Americas - Couverture souple

Zamora, Lois Parkinson

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521058090 ISBN 13 : 9780521058094

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

A comparative study of Latin American and North American fiction.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

How can we know the past? How can we speak of it in literary forms? Why should we want to? Concentrating on the past as both the subject of fiction and as a force for inscribing fiction, The Usable Past traces the ways in which writers self-consciously participate in the construction of an American canon. Successfully linking Latin American and North American fiction, Lois Zamora invokes authors as diverse in origin and manner as Carlos Fuentes and Willa Cather, Jorge Luis Borges and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Sandra Cisneros and Mario Vargas Llosa to explore issues surrounding colonisation and independence, mestizaje and melting pot, domination and self-determination, and the ambivalence of history in a 'new' world. The Usable Past is an elegant examination of the historical attitudes and literary practices of writers located in American time and space - locations that yield insight into American literary visions and versions of history.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521058090
• ISBN 13: 9780521058094
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 276
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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