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The Usable Past: The Imagination of History in Recent Fiction of the Americas » (New Edition)

Authors: Lois Parkinson Zamora
ISBN-13: 9780521582537, ISBN-10: 0521582539
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: August 2003
Edition: New Edition

A comparative study of Latin American and North American fiction.

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Pt. I	Anxiety of Origins	1
1	The Usable Past: History as Idea in the Americas	15
2	For the Record: Novels, Newspapers, Narration	40
3	Ancestral Presences: Magical Romance / Magical Realism	76
Pt. II	Intertextuality and Tradition	127
4	Synchronic Structures	133
	Conversation in The Cathedral
	62: A Model Kit
5	Fragmentary Fictions	156
	Dulcinea Encantada
	Woman Hollering Creek
6	Cliches and Community	178
	The Kiss of the Spider Woman
	Macho Camacho's Beat
	Comparative Conclusions: Baroque New Worlds	196
	Notes	211
	Index	251