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    "Pushing the Boundaries of Historiographic Metafiction: temporal instability, 'Authority' and Authorship in The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus; with Stephen Marlowe

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    URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/1169
    ISSN: 1578-3820
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i7.136
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    Calvo Pascual, Mónica
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    2006
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    After presenting Stephen Marlowe’s 1987 The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus as a prototypical example of ‘historiographic metafiction,’ this paper focuses on the features that make it a special case in the U.S. trend of postmodern historical novel. The positioning of a historical personage as autodiegetic narrator and critic of earlier historiography on his life and enterprise brings about a radicalization of the attacks upon the authority, efficiency and ‘objectivity’ of History. This innovative strategy is used to further not only the novel’s de-legitimatization of traditional historiography but also the self-deconstructive challenge it launches against the concepts of authority and authorship in Marlowe’s novel itself. Tras presentar la novela de Stephen Marlowe The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus (1987) como un ejemplo prototípico de ‘metaficción historiográfica’, este artículo estudia las características que la alejan de la tradición norteamericana. La posición de un personaje his...
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    History
    Historiographic metafiction
    Temporal instability
    Authority
    Historia
    Metaficción historiográfica
    Inestabilidad temporal
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