Denying history or defying History? John Fowles’s A maggot and the postmodernist novel
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| Field | Value | |
| Title | Denying history or defying History? John Fowles’s A maggot and the postmodernist novel | |
| Creator | Marais, M. | |
| Description | This paper takes issue with accusations that postmodernist fiction neglects or refuses to engage with history. I offer a reading of John Fowles’s A maggot which demonstrates how postmodernist novels, by way of a self-reflexive interrogation of their own narrative foundation, contest history’s master status and expose the latter’s similar dependence on narrative modes of totalizing representation. Such a demystification process, I maintain, prompts a recognition of the provisional status of history as a human construct, thus undermining its power of totalization and opening it up to rewriting. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 1991-05-06 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/lit.v12i3.770 | |
| Source | Literator; Vol 12, No 3 (1991); 1-12 Literator; Vol 12, No 3 (1991); 1-12 2219-8237 0258-2279 | |
| Language | eng | |
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