Revisiting History in Hayden White’s Philosophy
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 a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2014-07-01
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| Series: | SAGE Open |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244014542585 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 2158-2440 |