“Re‐Telling histories” in The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20156210 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sheena Patchay (Elizabeth City State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 245-252 |
| Publication date | 1998-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387 |
| Publisher | Unisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02564719808530201 |
| OpenAlex | W2010599320 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This article explores the various strategies that postmodern fiction uses to interrogate traditional historical representation. I argue that by blurring the boundaries between history and fiction, and the private and the public, postmodern fiction creates narrative space for histories of the Other to be explored and “reconfigured”. Hierdie artikel ondersoek die verskillende strategieë wat die postmoderne fiksie aanwend om tradisionele historiese voorstelling onder die loep te neem. Ek voer aan dat die postmoderne fiksie, deur die grense tussen geskiedenis en fiksie, en tussen die private en die openbare te laat vervaag, narratiewe ruimte skep vir geskiedenisse van die Ander “(the Other") om ondersoek en herstruktureer te word. Notes * This article is dedicated to the beloved memories of my late husband Vishnu Patchay
Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive psychology · Empathy · Forgetting · Laughter · Lightness · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Computer Science · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Philosophy, History, and Historiography · Psychology · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |