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History, Memory, Fiction proposes an examination of several contemporary novels and memoirs of leading Pakistani and Kashmiri writers, considering them as historical fiction, in other words as works that are based on real-world facts, but as fiction are able to go further in creating what have been called ''possible worlds'', ultimately creating a plausible story that might well be a true story. By blurring the frontier between history and fiction, unconstrained by concerns of referential ''truth'', these novels and memoirs are able to provide us with fresh insights and moral orientation while suggesting that the pastwhich is not the same as historymust be given meaning in our present if we wish to create better possible futures. Thus, these writers are engaged in active social critique, providing readers with a broader perspective of historical consciousness.

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    Publisher: OUP Pakistan
    Publication Date: 1/26/2024
    ISBN13: 9780190708825, 978-0190708825
    ISBN10: 190708824

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    History, Memory, Fiction proposes an examination of several contemporary novels and memoirs of leading Pakistani and Kashmiri writers, considering them as historical fiction, in other words as works that are based on real-world facts, but as fiction are able to go further in creating what have been called ''possible worlds'', ultimately creating a plausible story that might well be a true story. By blurring the frontier between history and fiction, unconstrained by concerns of referential ''truth'', these novels and memoirs are able to provide us with fresh insights and moral orientation while suggesting that the pastwhich is not the same as historymust be given meaning in our present if we wish to create better possible futures. Thus, these writers are engaged in active social critique, providing readers with a broader perspective of historical consciousness.

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