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

by Lois Parkinson Zamora

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521058090
• ISBN13: 9780521058094
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"