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- catalog abstract "The Usable Past presents a comparative discussion of American literary modes of historical imagining. Taking America in its hemispheric sense, Lois Parkinson Zamora presents a broad-ranging discussion of essential American voices - among them Borges, Hawthorne, Emerson, Williams, Paz, Carpentier, Cather, Fuentes, Cortazar, Rulfo, Cisneros, Puig, Vargas Llosa, Morrison. These writers dramatize the convergences and divergences of history and fiction as they question the nature of both. Zamora argues that they are impelled by a peculiarly American energy - what she calls an "anxiety of origins"--To search for precursors and connect to (or invent) usable traditions and histories. They conceive of originality not as novelty but as a complicated and enriched relation to their cultural traditions. How American writers thematize usable American pasts, and how their work itself becomes part of the usable past, is Zamora's overarching concern.".
- catalog contributor b10448998.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-248) and index.".
- catalog description "The Usable Past presents a comparative discussion of American literary modes of historical imagining. Taking America in its hemispheric sense, Lois Parkinson Zamora presents a broad-ranging discussion of essential American voices - among them Borges, Hawthorne, Emerson, Williams, Paz, Carpentier, Cather, Fuentes, Cortazar, Rulfo, Cisneros, Puig, Vargas Llosa, Morrison. These writers dramatize the convergences and divergences of history and fiction as they question the nature of both. Zamora argues that they are impelled by a peculiarly American energy - what she calls an "anxiety of origins"--To search for precursors and connect to (or invent) usable traditions and histories.".
- catalog description "They conceive of originality not as novelty but as a complicated and enriched relation to their cultural traditions. How American writers thematize usable American pasts, and how their work itself becomes part of the usable past, is Zamora's overarching concern.".
- catalog description "pt. I. Anxiety of origins. The usable past : history as idea in the Americas -- For the record : novels, newspapers, narration -- Ancestral presences : magical romance/magical realism -- pt. II. Intertextuality and tradition. Synchronic structures : Mario Vargas Llosa, conversations in The cathedral ; Julio Cortázar, 62 : a model kit -- Fragmentary fictions : Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, Woman hollering creek -- Clichés and community. Manual Puig : The kiss of the spider woman ; Luis Rafael Sáchez, Macho Comacho's beat -- Comparative conclusions : Baroque new worlds.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 257 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521582539 (hb)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "America.".
- catalog subject "863 21".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "History in literature.".
- catalog subject "Intertextuality.".
- catalog subject "Literature and history America.".
- catalog subject "PQ7082.N7 Z35 1997".
- catalog subject "Spanish American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. Anxiety of origins. The usable past : history as idea in the Americas -- For the record : novels, newspapers, narration -- Ancestral presences : magical romance/magical realism -- pt. II. Intertextuality and tradition. Synchronic structures : Mario Vargas Llosa, conversations in The cathedral ; Julio Cortázar, 62 : a model kit -- Fragmentary fictions : Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, Woman hollering creek -- Clichés and community. Manual Puig : The kiss of the spider woman ; Luis Rafael Sáchez, Macho Comacho's beat -- Comparative conclusions : Baroque new worlds.".
- catalog title "The usable past : the imagination of history in recent fiction of the Americas / Lois Parkinson Zamora.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".