Con-Scripting the Masses: False Documents and Historical Revisionism in the Americas

Dominick LaCapra argues that historians continue to interpret legal documents in a hierarchical fashion that marginalizes intellectual history, as fiction is perceived to be less viable. This dissertation analyzes contemporary literary texts in the Americas that exploit such a narrow reading of docu...

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Main Author: Weiser, Frans
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2011
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/347
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1356&context=open_access_dissertations