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Revisiting History in Hayden White’s Philosophy
Tekijät: Mehdi Ghasemi
Kustantaja: SAGE Publications Inc.
Julkaisuvuosi: 2014
Journal: Sage open
Lehden akronyymi: Sage Open
Vuosikerta: 4
Numero: 3
Aloitussivu: 1
Lopetussivu: 7
Sivujen määrä: 7
eISSN: 2158-2440
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244014542585
Verkko-osoite: http://sgo.sagepub.com/content/4/3/2158244014542585
Tiivistelmä
In his “Historical Fiction, Fictional History, and Historical Reality,” Hayden White writes “What we postmodernists are against is a professional historiography.” This statement inspired me to reexamine a number of White’s oeuvre from the perspective of postmodernism so as to find out in what ways and to what extent White is a postmodernist. In addition, I highlight a number of preoccupations of professional historiography and argue how White deploys the discourse of postmodernism to dismantle them.
In his “Historical Fiction, Fictional History, and Historical Reality,” Hayden White writes “What we postmodernists are against is a professional historiography.” This statement inspired me to reexamine a number of White’s oeuvre from the perspective of postmodernism so as to find out in what ways and to what extent White is a postmodernist. In addition, I highlight a number of preoccupations of professional historiography and argue how White deploys the discourse of postmodernism to dismantle them.