Postmodern fantasy strains convey the real past better than historical facts.

Evidence

In this peculiar form and content — real sewer systems with imaginary crocodiles in them — the wildest Pynchonesque fantasies are somehow felt to be thought experiments of all the epistemological power and falsifiable authority of Einstein’s fables, and in any case to convey the feel of the real past better than any of the “facts” themselves. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 784

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s falsifiability question about the cultural-dominant thesis — Jameson himself uses ‘falsifiable authority’ here.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: can a fantasy historiography claim to convey ‘the feel of the real past better than the facts’ without collapsing into relativism?