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Introduction: Representing History, Re-presenting the Past,erican past. This, I believe, offers the prospect of not only a more focused and coherent book, but, it is hoped, will allow for a sense of the multifarious nature of American history to emerge organically, and for a clearer exploration of the ways in which the writers themselves conceive of their h

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,‘There is a world inside the world’: Don DeLillo’s , and Latent History, that postmodernism is the cultural dominant of the latter half of the twentieth-century. Such is the interplay between theories of the postmodern and the content of DeLillo’s novels, one might be forgiven for thinking either that the theorists who posited such notions have done a fine job of captur

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Pynchon Plays Dice: , and Quantum History,he basis of an enquiry into the reason (and madness) of the Enlightenment, the brutalities of slavery, the nature of time, the origins and futures (I use the plural deliberately) of America, and much more besides. It is of course a furthering of his inquisition into methods of telling (his)stories,

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,‘There is only narrative’: E.L. Doctorow and Postmodernism,tional storytelling purposes’.3 It is perhaps the effect of this that led John Updike, in a percipient review of Doctorow’s 2005 novel ., to make theobservation that: ‘Doctorow is a stranger writer than he at first seems; his fiction, though generous with the conventional pleasures of dramatic plot,

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Ein- und Ausschalten der Bewegung,erican past. This, I believe, offers the prospect of not only a more focused and coherent book, but, it is hoped, will allow for a sense of the multifarious nature of American history to emerge organically, and for a clearer exploration of the ways in which the writers themselves conceive of their h

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