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HISTORY, FICTION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN J. U. RIBEIRO'S "AN INVINCIBLE MEMORY" AND R. COOVER'S "THE PUBLIC BURNING"

Valente, Luiz Fernando

Chasqui, 2011-05, Vol.40 (1), p.80-95 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Tempe: Chasqui: Revista de literatura latinoamericana

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  • Título:
    HISTORY, FICTION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN J. U. RIBEIRO'S "AN INVINCIBLE MEMORY" AND R. COOVER'S "THE PUBLIC BURNING"
  • Autor: Valente, Luiz Fernando
  • Assuntos: 19th century ; Aesthetics ; American literature ; Analisis ; Autores ; Brazilian culture ; Celebrations ; Coover, Robert ; Cultural history ; Culture ; Essays ; Fiction ; Historia ; Historians ; Historical fiction ; Historiography ; History ; Identidad nacional ; Ideology ; Literatura ; Memory ; Narrative history ; National identity ; Novelas historicas ; Novelists ; Novels ; Objectivity ; Obras ; Slaves ; United States history
  • É parte de: Chasqui, 2011-05, Vol.40 (1), p.80-95
  • Descrição: Ribeiro seems to agree with Walter Benjamin that only by going beyond the perspective of the victors, in which the time is conceived as homogeneous and therefore repetitive and empty, and by incorporating the potentially disruptive elements that characterize the actions of those existing at the margins rather than at the center of society, can any attempt to recapture the past begin to approach truth.31 To the extent that it gives voice to the ex-centric, literature moves to "brush history against the grain," to use Benjamin's classic formulation (257). [...]literature has a crucial role to play in rearranging the debris of the past into the hope for a new future. 7Ae Public Burning, on the other hand, voices considerable skepticism about the historical enterprise itself, particularly as it has been institutionalized in the United States. [...]he refers to judge Irving Saypool, who presided over the Rosenbergs' trial, as being responsible for making "what might later seem like nothing more than a series of overlapping fictions cohere into a convincing semblance of historical continuity and logical truth" (122). [...]Nixon comes to a meeting of the minds with a garrulous cab driver, with whom Nixon has an unplanned, off-the-record conversation on his way to the Senate Office Building after a high level meeting in the White House concerning the Rosenbergs case. First of all, the outrageous and grotesque humor of those passages, often evoking bodily functions, constantly undercuts and subverts the desire for order and stability.35 Furthermore, although supposedly a full taxonomy of American society and the American state, the lists leave out all those who do not fit in the intended grand scheme, such as an old panhandler who shows up uninvited, is described as "an antique shopwindow dummy from the Great Depression," and is finally dismissed as "some kind of turnstile (couldn't be real after all, not in prosperous postwar America)" (458). Since Ribeiro is both the author and the translator, a comparison between his text in Portuguese and in English may offer valuable insights into the construction of the novel. 11'This reading on Vi va opovo brasileiro glosses over several of the points I first developed in my 1993 article "Fiction as History: The Case of Joäo Ubaldo Ribeiro."
  • Editor: Tempe: Chasqui: Revista de literatura latinoamericana
  • Idioma: Inglês;Espanhol
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