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

Name: Usable Past The Imagination of History in Recent Fiction of the Americas
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ISBN: 9780521582537

ISBN-10: 0521582539

ISBN-13: 9780521582537

Edition: 1997

Authors: 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 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…

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List price: $90.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/13/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 276
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.29" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface



Anxiety of Origins



The Usable Past: History as Idea in the Americas



For the record: novels, newspapers, narration



Ancestral presences: magical romance magical realism



Intertextuality and Tradition



Synchronic structures, Mario Vargas Llosa, The Conversation in the Cathedral Julio Cortazar, 62: A Model Kit



Fragmentary fictions



Cliches and community Comparative conclusions: Baroque new worlds