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Article: Stories and politics
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- January 1, 1996
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MICHAEL HANNE, The Power of the Story: Fiction and Political Change (Providence and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1994), pp. 262, $29.95.
In this erudite and finely written book, Michael Hanne asks the familiar but significant and inexhaustible question: what is the relationship between fictional writing and historical events? In a poststructuralist theoretical climate, in which readers are accustomed to a tendency on critics' part to talk about fiction's "resistance" to or "subversion" of the larger social, cultural, and political contexts of which it partakes, Hanne's discussions provide thought-provoking reformulations of the elusive nature of such resistance and subversion, as well as of the ...