Fuentes De La Imaginacion Historica En La Narrativa De Marcio Veloz Maggiolo

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This dissertation analyzes four novels by Marcio Veloz Maggiolo (1936-), a well-known anthropologist and archaeologist and one of the most respected and prolific writers in the Dominican Republic. The analysis, which focuses on Materia prima, Una y carne, El hombre del acordeon and La mosca soldado, reveals the fundamental sources used in these novels in constructing the concept of the historical imagination . Its shown that the traditional concept of official history in these novels is rejected to give rise to an eclectic view of the past that embraces scientific and philosophical knowledge, as well as the voices of the marginalized other , folkloric manifestations, and the imaginative reflections of the characters and narrators. This idea about history is generally expressed in the texts in an archaeological language that stresses the authors originality as a narrator. Our study treats the historical imagination through the analysis of several topics.