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Pushing the Boundaries of Historiographic Metafiction: Temporal Instability, ‘Authority’ and Authorship in The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus; with Stephen Marlowe

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Tras presentar la novela de Stephen Marlowe The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus (1987) como un ejemplo prototípico de ‘metaficción historiográfica’, este artí- culo estudia las características que la alejan de la tradición norteamericana. La posición de un personaje histórico como narrador autodiegético y crítico de sus propios biógrafos trae consigo una radicalización de los ataques contra la autoridad, eficiencia y “objetividad” de la Historia convencionalmente vertidos por la metaficción historiográfica. Marlowe utiliza esta estrategia innovadora para llevar más allá no sólo la deslegitimación de la historiografía tradicional, sino también el desafío auto-deconstructivo de los conceptos de autoridad y autoría en la propia novela de Marlowe.Palabras clave: Historia, metaficción historiográfica, inestabilidad temporal, autoridad.Abstract:After presenting Stephen Marlowe’s 1987 The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus as a prototypical example of ‘historiographic metafiction,’ this paper focuses on the features that make it a special case in the U.S. trend of postmodern historical novel. The positioning of a historical personage as autodiegetic narrator and critic of earlier historiography on his life and enterprise brings about a radicalization of the attacks upon the authority, efficiency and ‘objectivity’ of History. This innovative strategy is used to further not only the novel’s de-legitimatization of traditional historiography but also the self-deconstructive challenge it launches against the concepts of authority and authorship in Marlowe’s novel itself.Keywords: History, Historiographic metafiction, temporal instability, authority
Title: Pushing the Boundaries of Historiographic Metafiction: Temporal Instability, ‘Authority’ and Authorship in The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus; with Stephen Marlowe
Description:
Tras presentar la novela de Stephen Marlowe The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus (1987) como un ejemplo prototípico de ‘metaficción historiográfica’, este artí- culo estudia las características que la alejan de la tradición norteamericana.
La posición de un personaje histórico como narrador autodiegético y crítico de sus propios biógrafos trae consigo una radicalización de los ataques contra la autoridad, eficiencia y “objetividad” de la Historia convencionalmente vertidos por la metaficción historiográfica.
Marlowe utiliza esta estrategia innovadora para llevar más allá no sólo la deslegitimación de la historiografía tradicional, sino también el desafío auto-deconstructivo de los conceptos de autoridad y autoría en la propia novela de Marlowe.
Palabras clave: Historia, metaficción historiográfica, inestabilidad temporal, autoridad.
Abstract:After presenting Stephen Marlowe’s 1987 The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus as a prototypical example of ‘historiographic metafiction,’ this paper focuses on the features that make it a special case in the U.
S.
trend of postmodern historical novel.
The positioning of a historical personage as autodiegetic narrator and critic of earlier historiography on his life and enterprise brings about a radicalization of the attacks upon the authority, efficiency and ‘objectivity’ of History.
This innovative strategy is used to further not only the novel’s de-legitimatization of traditional historiography but also the self-deconstructive challenge it launches against the concepts of authority and authorship in Marlowe’s novel itself.
Keywords: History, Historiographic metafiction, temporal instability, authority.

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