false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1257931497m/6639929.jpg 6639929 1 For the past 25 years, the journal <I>Conjunctions</I> has been known for introducing unlikely literary juxtapositions. Issue 53 takes such mergers as its theme, examining the hybrids that are created when fiction and poetry enter the supposedly objective realm of history. Many questions are raised by the pairings presented: is it possible, for instance, that the narrative artist can forge a heightened vision of what was, or what might have been, that becomes more compelling, more telling, than the historian's account? What does it mean when an historical incident becomes myth, and that myth influences history? The instigators of these queries are a stellar selection of voices from contemporary fiction, poetry and drama, including Robert Coover, Nathaniel Mackey, Peter Gizzi, Elizabeth Robinson, William H. Gass, Can Xue, Howard Norman and Paul West. They share a knack for conjuring historical periods, events and characters in a blur of fact, fiction and a visionary hybrid of the two. 6834384 book 31 12 2009 Conjunctions: 53, Not Even Past, Hybrid Histories total:2|5:2|4:0|3:0|2:0|1:0| 2 10 5 0 0 0 false false Wed Nov 18 10:59:14 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 10:59:14 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 15 23:42:22 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 23:42:22 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 09 10:40:28 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 10:40:34 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue Nov 17 18:53:17 -0800 2009 Wed Oct 07 10:51:43 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 11 05:41:52 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Nov 23 09:21:58 -0800 2009 Wed Oct 07 08:58:00 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 10 15:48:17 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6639929