FICTIONS OF HISTORY: SUBALTERN TRACES IN DALRYMPLE'S THE LAST MUGHAL
Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru
Since the advent of NewHistoricism, it has been widely acknowledged
that fiction and history share a narrative construction of events1. Whilst
there are many ways of writing history, the degree of faithfulness to "what
really happened" can vary in both history and fiction and is widely dependent
on the author's own interpretation. Despite narrative conventions that
support different views, in both cases the claim to truth