Title: Prophecy, History and Story in The Cattle Killing
Abstract: This exile is a purely fictional one, the writer's estrangement from his own words. The narrator is offering us not so much a story as a reading of a story or, inversely, a story of reading. The pattern is a familiar one in contemporary fiction, which attempts to retain its credibility in an age of suspicion by mirroring its own devices and concerns. Wideman, aware of the reader's familiarity with self-reflexive fiction, offers a further gloss for this late 20th-century exercise in exegesis:
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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