1.1. Introduction to the critical debate on the nature of history and its relationship with literature.

1.2. Types of postmodern historical novels.

2.1. The linguistic turn. The narrativisation of history: questions of representation, referentiality and thruthfulness.

2.2. Facts and their intepretation: challenging historical positivism. Hayden White and his theory on “The historical text as literary artefact” (1978).

2.3. Form creating meaning: structuring the events in a narrative, temporal order, narrative voice, focalization, etc. The politics of the point of view.

3.1. Definition and main features. Self-reflexivity and historiographic reflection.

3.2. Restating history and exposing its untruthfulness. The relationship between fiction and reality.

4.1. The recovery of history: decentring, diversity and perspectivism. The politics of micro-stories vs. macro-story or “The Great Story”.

4.2. Revisiting and recovering the past from the excluded versions of history and the culturally marginalised: literary re-writings and traumas’ upwelling.