![]() Reflecting on the relation between interpretation, truth, and the meaning given to past reality, the present article reads the fragments of representations of the past as «narrative substances» and examines the choice and arrangement of these fragments in the two novels. The analysis of the narrative strategies the two authors share to expose patterns of socially and ideologically constructed representation of the historical «other» draws on some of the main ideas and concepts developed by Frank Ankers-mit, one of the leading figures in contemporary historiography. ![]() Coetzee's Dusklands (1974) and Caryl Phillips's Higher Ground (1989). ![]() This study is an attempt to cross the boundaries between academic disciplines and provide a new perspective for the interpretation of the past in J. ![]()
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