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Journal Article
Historicizing Fiction / Fictionalizing History in Don DE Lillo's Historiographical Met Fiction
2016
Overview
This research paper offers an attempt to examine the degree of historical authenticity of the factual/fictional account built by Don DeLillo in his novel Libra to solve the Kennedy assassination riddle. Libra raises questions about our relationship to historical facts and how the reader is supposed to react to their degree of truthfulness. It exemplifies the ability of fiction to provide another view, which can enjoy the same degree of truthfulness the historical record does. DeLillo's account of the assassination depends upon the conspiracy theory which considers the murder as part of a larger plot involving not only Lee Harvey Oswald, whose name is mentioned in all historical records accounting for that event, but also a number of CIA agents who accommodate the fictional part of the story. DeLillo built his story according to the possible answers of a number of questions stirred in his mind by the murder. Libra, in this sense, provides a good example of historiographic metafiction, one of the postmodernist subgenres of the historical novel, by illustrating the postmodernist challenge of the authority of history as a factual metanarrative and acknowledging the subjective nature of the process of interpretation adopted by historians.
Publisher
جامعة الفيوم - كلية الآداب
