ENGL 222 Lecture Notes - Don Mckay, Manifest Destiny, Metafiction
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Historiographic metafiction: historiography is the study of history, graphic means text, the study of the textualization of history how we disseminate history, meta means to carry (burden) ie. metaphor = to carry across figurative language. Discussion of not just history but memory: memory"s impact on us in the present, history"s impacts on us through literature in the present, nostalgia: vanessa"s story is positioned in a nostalgic way. Call past into present because something is lost. Flavour / layer to nostalgia that suggests that it belongs to the past, that we"ve moved on from it. To bring past into present would be a problematic messing of the way time works. P. 304 (bottom: need the maid in the house to do the stuff because beth is going to work. Don"t talk stupidly she is resisting to the story-izing of her: vanessa is resistant to change, wants that change but feels guilty.
