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Cohn, Deborah Nahamah.

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The burden of the past: Visions and revisions of history in Latin America and the United States South.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The burden of the past: Visions and revisions of history in Latin America and the United States South./
Author:	Cohn, Deborah Nahamah.
Description:	208 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-09, Section: A, page: 3956.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-09A.
Subject:	Literature, Latin American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9704008
ISBN:	0591108186

The burden of the past: Visions and revisions of history in Latin America and the United States South.
Cohn, Deborah Nahamah.

The burden of the past: Visions and revisions of history in Latin America and the United States South. - 208 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-09, Section: A, page: 3956.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 1996.

This dissertation's aim is to establish correspondences in contemporary Southern U.S. and Latin American novelists' re-writing of regional history. Latin American authors have long acknowledged Faulkner's influence on their work. I examine a more general sense of solidarity with writers from the South by virtue of a common perception of the past as a series of defeats and dispossessions. The works compared focus on a frustrated past and strive to forge a collective identity. They also challenge the power relations dictating historiography by asking whose lives and actions are recorded as history. The authors studied include Isabel Allende, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, Juan Rulfo, and Mario Vargas Llosa.

ISBN: 0591108186Subjects--Topical Terms:

1024734
Literature, Latin American.

The burden of the past: Visions and revisions of history in Latin America and the United States South.
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520 $a Chapter I draws comparisons between the regions' experiences of political and cultural colonization. The destruction of war, the difficulties attendant upon (neo)colonial status, and the upheavals of modernization and underdevelopment are experiences which have been shared by the South and Latin America. In Chapter II, I examine how Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Vargas Llosa's Historia de Mayta deconstruct history by tracing the process through which an official version of an event is selected and legitimated. Both novels problematize historical objectivity by drawing attention to the constructed nature of historical truth. Chapter III studies Ellison's Invisible Man and Allende's La casa de los espiritus as attempts to correct history's failure to record the experiences of African Americans in the U.S. and women in Latin America, and thus restore them to social visibility. Chapter IV turns from written history to the alternative modes of transmitting the past proposed in Porter's The Old Order and Rulfo's Pedro Paramo. It focusses on the role of memory and storytelling in strengthening communal structures threatened with disintegration by the changing of orders.
520 $a The analysis touches upon many other issues, including postcolonialism, the social function of literature, and the representationality of historiography. In short, the dissertation compares and contrasts the authors' exploration of the burden of their pasts, and their attempts to provide correctives to official historical discourse.
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