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Article: The Usable Past: The Imagination of History in Recent Fiction of the Americas.
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- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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The Usable Past: The Imagination of History in Recent Fiction of the
Americas. By Lois Parkinson Zamora. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne:
Cambridge University Press. 1998. xiii+257 pp. [pound]37.50; $59.95.
Reading new fiction from the United States and Latin America together has been an especially good idea, ever since Jorge Luis Borges graced classic American authors with his attention and writers such as John Barth and Robert Coover began reading and critiquing Magic Realism. Some say the key event was Kurt Vonnegut and Jose Donso sharing office space in 1966 as teachers at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. In the last three decades fiction from the ...