History made, history imagined : contemporary literature, poiesis, and the past / David W. Price.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Price, David W. (David Walter), 1957-
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1999], ©1999.
Subjects:
History > Philosophy.
History > Methodology.
Physical Description:x, 338 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: contending with history
  • Making the truth: history, fiction, and philosophy
  • Imagining the past: Carlos Fuentes's Terra nostra
  • Experiencing the past: Susan Daitch's L.C.
  • Critiquing the past: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children
  • Redeeming the past: Michel Tournier's Le roi des aulnes
  • Improvising the past: Ishmael Reed's Mumbo jumbo
  • Narrating the past: Graham Swift's Waterland
  • Inventing the past: Mario Vargas Llosa's El hablador
  • Postscript: Annihilating the past.