Don DeLillo's<i>Libra</i>: History as Text, History as Trauma

Wilcox, Leonard

doi:10.1080/13642520500149541

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“…While Tarantino subverts generic conventions by restructuring the symbolic order of particular genres, such subversion can also work at the level of "reality", most notable in the extent to which Tarantino restructures historical events and people. To note, the symbolic order includes what we consider to be "the past" as well as historical accounts that sustain this past in the present (Wilcox 2005). As a consequence, the symbolic order maintains a degree of authoritative power by organizing the knowledge which constitutes "the past".…”

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confidence: 99%