The Usable Past
The Imagination of History in Recent Fiction of the Americas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19917049 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lois Parkinson Zamora (University of Houston, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Publication date | 1997-12-13 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Usable Past (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511519581 |
| OpenAlex | W4255536973 |
| Open Library | OL1010690M |
| ISBN | 9780511519581 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
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 Past traces the ways in which writers self-consciously participate in the construction of an American canon. Successfully linking Latin American and North American fiction, Lois Zamora invokes authors as diverse in origin and manner as Carlos Fuentes and Willa Cather, Jorge Luis Borges and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Sandra Cisneros and Mario Vargas Llosa to explore issues surrounding colonisation and independence, mestizaje and melting pot, domination and self-determination, and the ambivalence of history in a 'new' world. The Usable Past is an elegant examination of the historical attitudes and literary practices of writers located in American time and space - locations that yield insight into American literary visions and versions of history
Ambivalence · American literature · Art · Art history · History of literature · Independence (probability theory) · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Subject (documents) · USable · Vision · Anthropology · Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity · Computer Science · Cuban History and Society · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Psychology · 20th century · America · American fiction · American fiction, history and criticism · History and criticism · History in literature · Intertextuality · Literature and history · Spanish American fiction · Spanish American literature · Spanish american literature, history and criticism
Unreasonable doubt
Weaving a larger web
Decolonial Challenges and Post-Genocide Archaeological Politics in Rwanda
Seeing the insane in Cristina Rivera Garza's Nadie me verá llorar (1999)
Echoes of the Past in the Present
Structures of empathy
More Than Just a Hill of Beans
Patriarchy and incest in William Faulkner's 'Absalom! Absalom!' and Juan Rulfo's 'Pedro Páramo
Eyeing the north star
Theorizing the hemisphere Inter-Americas work at the intersection of American, Canadian, and Latin American studies
Global Diasporas
Selkea! Memories of Eating Non-Kosher Food among the Spanish-Moroccan Jewish Diaspora in Israel
"They Kicked Him Out"
On Applied Archaeology, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Usable Past
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,61 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |