Archival Reflections: Postmodern Fiction of the Americas (self-reflexivity, Historical Revisionism, Utopia)

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Bucknell University Press, 2000 - 367 páginas
Archival Reflections explores the works of Carlos Fuentes of Mexico, Julio Cortazar of Argentina, and Ismael Reed and E. L. Doctorow of the United States from two innovative perspectives -- the new forms of the historical novel and the current debate on postmodernism. It explores North-South relations in the Americas and the question of cultural borders within the New World order. It has implications for the literary histories of Spanish America and the United States, as well as for the fields of inter-American and cultural studies, literary theory, and historiography.

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Acknowledgments
9
Prospects for an InterAmerican Approach to Postmodern Fiction
11
Historiographic Metafiction in the Context of Postmodemism Theory
19
Heretical History Carlos Fuentess Theater of Memory
54
Displacing the Official Record Ishmael Reeds Reinvention of Western History and Myth
126
Between Political Commitment and Epistemological Skepticism Julio Cortazar and E L Doctorow
194
Toward a Pedagogical Political Culture Historical Revisionism Fiction and Resistance in the Americas
255
Conclusion
283
Notes
292
Bibliography
336
Index
355
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Página 35 - Third-world texts — even those which are seemingly private and invested with a properly libidinal dynamic — necessarily project a political dimension in the form of national allegory: the story of the private individual destiny is always an allegory of the embattled situation of the public third-world culture and society.
Página 41 - Metafiction is a term given to fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artefact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality.
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Página 48 - ... in the most unpromising places, in what we tend to feel is without history — in sentiments, love, conscience, instincts; it must be sensitive to their recurrence, not in order to trace the gradual curve of their evolution, but to isolate the different scenes where they engaged in different roles.
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