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"History Revisited:" Narrative and History in Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family and Jacques Poulin's Volkswagen Blues

This study explores the interrelations between
narrative and history in two Canadian and Quebecois novels.
Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family (1982) . Tracing narrative techniques
in general and intertextuality in particular, the thesis
reveals postmodern concerns in re-writing history. Both
Ondaatje's and Poulin's novel refract the master narrative of
History and its closed linear nature into multiple
discontinuous histories. In accordance with recent
historiography. they further unmask the textuality. and hence
ideological embeddedness, of our knowledge about the past.
Both exploiting and contesting historical authority, Poulin
and Ondaatje inquire into the relations between art, history.
and the structure of social and cultural power. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:mcmaster.ca/oai:macsphere.mcmaster.ca:11375/15661
Date07 1900
CreatorsKotte, Claudia
ContributorsHyman, Dr. Roger, English
Source SetsMcMaster University
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis

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