Book One: History as a Novel

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book section literary work

"Book One: History as a Novel" is the first section of Norman Mailer’s nonfiction work *The Armies of the Night*, blending novelistic techniques with historical reportage about the 1967 March on the Pentagon.

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Label	Occurrences
Book One: History as a Novel canonical	1
Book Two: The Novel as History	1

Statements (25)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book section ⓘ literary work ⓘ
author	Norman Mailer ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
focusesOn	Norman Mailer as a character ⓘ
genre	New Journalism ⓘ historical narrative ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ
isFirstSectionOf	Armies of the Night ⓘ surface form: The Armies of the Night
language	English ⓘ
literaryForm	prose ⓘ
literaryMovement	postmodern literature ⓘ
narrativeMode	first-person narrative ⓘ
partOf	Armies of the Night ⓘ surface form: The Armies of the Night
portrays	anti–Vietnam War activists ⓘ intellectuals and writers at the march ⓘ
relatedWork	Book Two: The Novel as History ⓘ
setting	Washington, D.C. ⓘ
subject	1967 March on the Pentagon ⓘ Vietnam War protest movement ⓘ
subtitleRelation	History as a Novel, the Novel as History ⓘ
timePeriod	1967 ⓘ
usesTechnique	historical reportage ⓘ novelistic techniques ⓘ
workType	autobiographical reportage ⓘ

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Armies of the Night → dividedInto → Book One: History as a Novel ⓘ

this entity surface form: Book Two: The Novel as History