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First, with an ironic tone of worldliness, Dunsany foregrounds his text's fictiveness, anticipating post-war cynicism and suggesting the possibility that the book might be read as a kind of fantastic satire (perhaps in the vein of his more cynical American contemporary James Branch Cabell): "This text really is a history (wink, wink)," the first sentence seems to say.
Yet we are reminded of the fictiveness and constructedness of ethnic or national identity, the very fact that the relationship between the one and the other is contingent upon the given sociopolitical reality.
In an era in which photography's truth-value has been destabilized, painting--wearing its fictiveness on its sleeve--reemerges as a viable vehicle for examining the past.
 
 
 
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