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Cover 1 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Table of Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 Introduction: When Fiction Became History 14 Chapter 1. Absalom, Absalom!: William Faulkner￢ﾀﾙs True History of the South 55 Chapter 2. Cormac McCarthy￢ﾀﾙs Blood Meridian: The First and Last Book of America 93 Chapter 3. Off Faulkner￢ﾀﾙs Plantation: Toni Morrison￢ﾀﾙs Beloved and Song of Solomon 130 Chapter 4. Thomas Pynchon￢ﾀﾙs Mason & Dixon: Drawing a Line in the Sands of History 163 Chapter 5. History after Henry Adams and Ronald Reagan: Joan Didion￢ﾀﾙs Democracy and Don DeLillo￢ﾀﾙs Underworld 206 Chapter 6. Denis Johnson￢ﾀﾙs Fiskadoro: Postcolonial America 245 Notes 282 Works Cited 304 Index 316 Back Cover 322 Publisher:University of Massachusetts Press,Published:2008,ISBN:9781613761458,Related ISBN:9781558496262,Language:English,OCLC:762695462 Why don't we read novels as if they were histories and histories as if they were novels? Recent postmodern theorists such as Hayden White and Linda Hutcheon have argued that since history is a narrative art, it must be understood as a form of narrative representation analogous to fiction. Yet, contrary to the fears of some historians, such arguments
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- Author
- Didion, Joan;Morrison, Toni;Parrish, Timothy;McCarthy, Cormac;Faulkner, William;Pynchon, Thomas
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press; Brand: University of Massachusetts Press; Univ of Massachusetts Pr
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781613761458
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Science, Literary Fiction
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