Fiction and History

Focuses on how the historical fiction that has flourished over the past three decades challenges the notions of objectivity and totalization, while providing alternative viewpoints for the reconstruction and reinterpretation of the past. Authors to be considered include E. L. Doctorow, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Günter Grass, José Saramago Isabel Allende, Lídia Jorge, Coover. Attention will also be paid to theoretical texts by Hayden White, Dominick LaCapra, Walter Benjamin, Linda Hutcheon, and Roger Chartier.