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DOCTOROW'S "RAGTIME": A BREACH IN THE FRAME OF HISTORY

Sánchez, Jesús Benito

Atlantis (Salamanca, Spain), 1997, Vol.19 (2), p.15-24 [Revista revisada por pares]

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DOCTOROW'S "RAGTIME": A BREACH IN THE FRAME OF HISTORY
Autor: Sánchez, Jesús Benito
Materias: Infants ; Literary postmodernism ; Narrative history ; Narratives ; Novelists ; Novels ; Ragtime ; Referents ; Silhouettes ; United States history
Es parte de: Atlantis (Salamanca, Spain), 1997, Vol.19 (2), p.15-24
Descripción: This article focuses on Doctorow's conception of the interdependence between fiction and history as it is represented in Ragtime. The novel is used to uncover the process by which a naive notion of history as something always already fixed can be deconstructed and substituted by a conception of the absolute indeterminacy of the past. Eternal flux and change become the essence of the past, a past which is always being rewritten. This latter conception is then ascribed to fiction as a valid «speculative history.» History is a kind of fiction in which we live and hope to survive, and fiction is a kind of speculative history, or a superhistory, by which the available data for the composition is seen to be greater and more various in its sources than the historian supposes ... There is no fiction or non fiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.
Editor: Asociacion Espanola de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos
Idioma: Inglés

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