A search for self through historical reconstruction constitutes a crucial concern of the American postmodern historical novels of Pynchon, Barth, Mailer, Coover, and Doctorow. This concern consists of a self-conscious dramatization, paralleled by contemporary theorists' arguments, of the constructedness of history and individual subject. A historian-character's process of historical inquiry and narrative-making foregrounded in these novels represents the efforts by the postmodern self to (re)construct identity (or identities) in a constructing context of discourse and ideology.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc277638 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Pak, Inchan |
| Contributors | May, Brian, Simpkins, Scott, 1958-, Mitchell, Giles R., Wyatt, Justin, 1963- |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | v, 221 leaves, Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved., Pak, Inchan |
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