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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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-efe71c14422b449aa08d4c113fc339382022-12-22T00:45:38ZengSAGE PublishingSAGE Open2158-24402014-07-01410.1177/215824401454258510.1177_2158244014542585Revisiting History in Hayden White’s PhilosophyMehdi Ghasemi0Department of English, University of Turku, FinlandIn 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.https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244014542585 |
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