MDDM Ch. 54 historiographic metafiction

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The Usual Tragedy

530.13-15, 19-20
"But then the Spaniard may see an opportunity to remove certain memories,
and substitute others,-- thus controlling the very Stuff of History.(...)
The Wolf of Jesus, perhaps never aware that Lies and Truth will converge
(...)."

Compare this to Wicks' "Christ and History" on p. 349. History, the idea
that through looking back in time we could gain any objective knowledge of
the past, is one of the three meta-fictions deconstructed by postmodernism.

"Those in power control history."
Linda Hutcheon, _A Poetics of Postmodernism_, Routledge 1988.

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