Fictionalization of History in Stephen Chobsky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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Presentresearch efforts to search the fictional natureofhistory utilizing the
newhistoricism as conceptualized by Michel Focault and Stephen Grenblat.This
research casts light on how history is discursive and constructed phenomenonin
Chobsky'snovelThePerks of Being Wallflower.This research probes into the
unreliable character Charlie, one-eyed Jew living In America. He narrates the
incidents in broken English with several discontinuities. Charliepresents a dreary,
hellishpicture of America of the early 1990s.However, he withdraws his own
narration in the course of novel. He even claims that he is not sure about the
incidents happened in his life because he is suffering from mentalillness. Throughout
the unreliable narrative of Charlie, Chobsky deconstructs the traditional notion of
history as the matter of facts and he claims that history is the matter of fabricated
power politics.
Keywords:History, Discourse, Fictionalization, Knowledge, Perspective, Truth,
Holocaust