85470 20210902121603.0 doi 10.1080/00111619.2019.1650710 sideral 113548 ART-2020-113548 eng Collado-Rodríguez, Francisco Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-2922-9194 Narratives of the rocket: Chabon's "amnesiac" revisitation of Pynchon's posthuman zone 2020 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted This work explores Michael Chabon's use in Moonglow of notions related to the uncertainty of memories, categorical thinking, and historiographic metafiction, and the intertextual connections existing between his novel and Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Both the narrator's grandfather in Chabon's book and the protagonist of Pynchon''s masterpiece share the same quest for the ethically ambiguous rocket when WW2 is coming to its end in Europe. In both novels, the quest highlights its representational rather than actual value thanks to the use of some strategies that ultimately seem to put into question our capacity to know the past and its present consequences in reliable terms. They become a warning that epistemological difficulties should not discourage us from looking for the historical truth and, thus, make the necessary ethical choices. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H03-17R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FFI2015-63506-P info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 0.233 2020 Literature and Literary Theory 2020 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 61, 1 (2020), 91-103 Critique - Bolingbroke Soc. Critique - Bolingbroke Society 0011-1619 1089610 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/85470/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 96520 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/85470/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:85470 articulos driver 2021-09-02-08:36:10 ARTICLE