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| Aizenberg,
Edna. "The Third World Novel as Counterhistory: Things
Fall Apart and
Asturias's Men of Maize." In Approaches to Teaching Achebe's Things Fall Apart.
Ed.
Bernth Lindfors. Approaches to Teaching World Literature Series:
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| Abstract: Historical fiction is the chosen genre of many 20th-century novels written by "Third World," multicultural, and post-colonial writers--and this is "no accident," according to Edna Aizenberg. These writers share a "need . . . to come to terms with a past usurped by a colonial regime," to refute the colonizers' "'official' versions" of that past, and to re-create a "national history, particularly those portions distorted or censored by [Western] conquerors and their successors" (85). | |||||||||
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Aizenberg raises some key questions useful for approaching most works of historical fiction:
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