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Stranger than Fiction: American Political History, Postmodernism, and the work of Mas’ud Zavarzadeh. A Response to Mas’ud Zavarzadeh, “The Apocalyptic Fact and the Eclipse of Fiction in Recent American Prose Narratives” (1975)

Ahmed Honeini

Journal of American Studies | Sep 28, 2026

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Stranger than Fiction: American Political History, Postmodernism, and the work of Mas’ud Zavarzadeh. A Response to Mas’ud Zavarzadeh, “The Apocalyptic Fact and the Eclipse of Fiction in Recent American Prose Narratives” (1975)

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@article{Honeini2026Stranger,
  title = {Stranger than Fiction: American Political History, Postmodernism, and the work of Mas’ud Zavarzadeh. A Response to Mas’ud Zavarzadeh, “The Apocalyptic Fact and the Eclipse of Fiction in Recent American Prose Narratives” (1975)},
  author = {Ahmed Honeini},
  journal = {Journal of American Studies},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1017/s0021875826102205},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021875826102205}
}

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