Narrating the Past

Product DescriptionNarrative constitutes an integral part of human existence, being omnipresent in our ordering of the world and the ways in which we transmit both knowledge and experience. Narrative construction has challenged the supremacy of empirical fact and has questioned our ability to know the past Aas it really was. Examining a wide range of texts, from ancient Greece and medieval Britain to contemporary America, Asia, Australia, Britain and the Caribbean, the essays in this volume address the inconsistencies in master narratives to reveal that all representations of the past, like knowledge, are situated.About the AuthorNandita Batra was born in Bombay, obtaining a Bachelor's and a Master's from the University of Delhi, and a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. She teaches English Literature and is Editor of Revista Atenea: A Bilingual Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez and now serves as Vice-President and Secretary of the College English Association=s Caribbean Chapter. Vartan P. Messier was born in Geneva, receiving a Bachelor's from the University of San Diego and a Master's from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez; he is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California-Riverside. He has taught French and English at Universities and institutions across Europe and the Americas and now serves as President of the College English Association's Caribbean Chapter.