"Earlier versions of chapters 6 and 7 have appeared in Textual practice and English studies in Canada"--Title page verso. - "First published 1994 by Harvester Wheatsheaf ... Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire"--Title page verso. - Second ISBN from label with bar code on p. [4] of cover. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-296) and index
pt. 1 - History and narrative - Historical narrative and the politics of point of view -- - Common sense and historical narrative -- - pt. 2 - Modernism and orthodoxy - Nostromo and the "torrent of rubbish" -- - Parade's end: "Has the British this or that come to this!" -- - Absalom, Absalom!: the "nigger in the woodpile" -- - pt. 3 - Postmodernism and heterodoxy - Bearing witness: African-American women's fiction -- - V: in the rathouse of history with Thomas Pynchon
