The fictionalization of history and the personal stories in Obasan and Slaughterhouse-five

The nature of history has always been studied and analyzed from different perspectives throughout the centuries. Following a postmodern position, many theorists have explored history and have questioned it critically in the light of the present. The postmodern theorist Brenda Marshall has stated, “H...

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Autor principal: Velazquez, Yanina de los Angeles
Otros Autores: Kofman, Gustavo
Formato: Tesis de Grado
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2014
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11086/1582
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Sumario:The nature of history has always been studied and analyzed from different perspectives throughout the centuries. Following a postmodern position, many theorists have explored history and have questioned it critically in the light of the present. The postmodern theorist Brenda Marshall has stated, “History in the postmodern moment becomes histories and stories.” Scholars have been interested in the stories that are not told and need to be reconstructed to reveal other stories that have been hidden and silenced for a long time, and, in some cases, they were written with ideological implications on the part of a dominant group in society.