History as Fiction: D. M. Thomas’s The White Hotel as an Example of Historiographic Metafiction
D. M. Thomas’s The White Hotel (1981) narrates the personal history of Lisa Erdman who is mercilessly murdered in the Babi Yar massacre in 1941. The aim of this paper is to analyze the ways D. M. Thomas uses history in The White Hotel and discusses the main concern of the novel regarding history a...
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Language: | English |
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Gaziantep University
2019-01-01
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Series: | Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences |
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Online Access: | http://dergipark.gov.tr/download/article-file/627458 |