The troubled relationship between truth and history after Nietzsche is the starting point of this paper. It observes how two Indian writers, Rushdie and Ghosh, react to the post-modern scepticism in very different ways. Rushdie dramatizes it and mocks any claim to true to fact historiography. Ghosh seems to have absorbed scepticism and historical unreliability to the point of taking it for granted and "moving on" towards a conscious use of literary imagination in historiography. Partiality and subjectivity become the main ingredients to the construction of a memory, which the writer considers more valuable than history.
Storia e conoscenza storica in Midnight’s Children e The Shadow Lines / A. Vescovi - In: Le trame della conoscenza : percorsi epistemologici nella prosa inglese dalla prima modernità al postmoderno / [a cura di] M. Bignami. - Milano : Unicopli, 2007. - ISBN 978-88-400-1187-5. - pp. 123-143
Storia e conoscenza storica in Midnight’s Children e The Shadow Lines
A. VescoviPrimo
2007
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The troubled relationship between truth and history after Nietzsche is the starting point of this paper. It observes how two Indian writers, Rushdie and Ghosh, react to the post-modern scepticism in very different ways. Rushdie dramatizes it and mocks any claim to true to fact historiography. Ghosh seems to have absorbed scepticism and historical unreliability to the point of taking it for granted and "moving on" towards a conscious use of literary imagination in historiography. Partiality and subjectivity become the main ingredients to the construction of a memory, which the writer considers more valuable than history.
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