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History and memory in the two souths : recent Southern and Spanish American fiction
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- Creator
- Deborah N. Cohn
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 1999
- Physical Details
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- x, 236 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780826513328, 0826513328, 9780826513373, 0826513379
- OCLC
- ocm40516829
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-230) and index.
- Introduction: the U.S. South and Spanish America: neighboring spaces and the search for meaning in difficult pasts -- The case of the fabricated facts: invented information and the problems of reconstructing the past in Absalom, Absalom! and the real life of Alejandro Mayta -- To see or not to see: invisibility, clairvoyance, and re-visions of history in Invisible man and The house of the spirits -- Paradise lost and regained: the old order and memory in the Miranda stories and Pedro Páramo -- Conclusion: race and place in identity and history -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index
Subjects
- American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
- Historical fiction, American -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
- Literature and history -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
- Latin American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Literature and history -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century.
- Historical fiction, Latin American -- History and criticism.
- Comparative literature -- American and Latin American.
- Comparative literature -- Latin American and American.
- Autobiographical memory in literature.
- Memory in literature.
- Southern States -- In literature.
- Latin America -- In literature.