Jarring Witnesses : : Modern Fiction and the Representation of History / / Robert Holton.
Jarring Witnesses begins by surveying the problem of point of view as a formal, cognitive and cultural determinant in narrative historiography, particularly in the way certain dominant forms of 'legitimate' history have necessitated the suppresson of the voices of 'jarring witnesses&#...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Postmodern Theory : POTH
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Part I History and narrative
- 1 Historical narrative and the politics of point of view
- 2 Common sense and historical narrative
- Part II Modernism and orthodoxy
- 3 Nostromo and the ‘torrent of rubbish’
- 4 Parade’s End: ‘Has the British this or that come to this!’
- 5 Absalom, Absalom!: The ‘nigger in the woodpile’
- Part III Postmodernism and heterodoxy
- 6 Bearing witness: African-American women’s fiction
- 7 V.: In the rathouse of history with Thomas Pynchon
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index