- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Price, David W. (David Walter), 1957-
- Published
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999
- Contents
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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.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-329) and index.
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.
