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Authority and the Historical Document in Late Twentieth-Century Literature (Hardcover)
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Authority and the Historical Document in Late Twentieth-Century Literature (Hardcover)
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After the Fact: Authority and the Historical Document in Late
Twentieth-Century Literature examines historiographic metafiction's
epistemological concern with the historical document. The six texts
herein recover official and neglected documents, viewing history
from marginal perspectives endeavoring an ethical reconsideration
of dominant historical narratives. Thematically paired chapters
focus on eye-witness narratives, legal and official government
documents, and news publications. The first two chapters, D.M.
Thomas' The White Hotel with Toni Morrison's Beloved, explore the
writers' reconsideration of eye-witness accounts, specifically the
Holocaust survivor narrative and the slave narrative. The second
pair reviews mythologies of the nation in the United States. Susan
Howe's Singularities rewrites the Indian captivity narrative.
Hannah Weiner's Spoke revises the 1868 Black Hills treaty to focus
on how popular and official texts promote the colonial imaginary
and function to justify colonial expansion. The final two chapters
examine Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and Robert Coover's The
Public Burning, which critique the press's authority by questioning
its claim to objectivity.
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