+1 862 207 3288 ‘We cannot afford to believe colonial history, or the reconfigurations we make of it … History is a legitimizing device and revising it or rewriting it is simply contributing to the process of legitimizing the social and temporal worlds that harness our culture.” (Greg Lehman, “A Desire for Uncertainty” 14)
Outline instances in Death of a River Guide where historical fiction both conforms to and resists this legitimizing role.
