ENG2083: Postmodern Fiction: Memory, History, and the Novel

Abstract

In the age of competing “histories from below” and from the margins, of docudramas and historiographic metafiction, and of technologies that render historical evidence increasingly falsifiable and suspect, the traditional idea of history as an objective chronicle of the past has been challenged as never before. In this course, we’ll explore how postmodern novelists have participated in and responded to these challenges through their depictions of World War II and 9/11.