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

by Lois Parkinson Zamora

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521058090

ISBN13:9780521058094

Release Date:January 2008

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:276 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Language Arts Literary Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction

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