The Usable Past: The Imagination of History in Recent Fiction of the Americas by Lois Parkinson Zamora

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

Lois Parkinson Zamora

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nonfiction classics history literary medium-paced
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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-consci...

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