Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.
the parallels between revolutionary american and present day America. Young republic, he
shows that the reasons for the war of independece wasn't as noble as the traditional historians
want to present, it wasnt for the love of freedom and so called crimes of the english king.
Vidal claims that it was just a fight for money. Washington approved of slavery, dissaproved
the french revolution. Burr makes fun of Europeans who came to fight for American
independence, De la Fayatte, Jefferson, who had always been considered progressive man is
less symphatical than Washington. Drawing these parallels Vidal shows that corruption has
always been in the American government.
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Historiografic metafiction as a post-modern genre, in her, Hutcheon (Canadian writer),
theorie (historiografie was history is recorded/metafiction fiction about fiction). The
recordgin of historical facts and fictions. The techniques have narrative quality. It's a literary