Isn?t Hayden White the main dude as far as a post structural histography
goes. As far as I understand posties need not deny that historical facts
exist. i.e. non linguistic things in-and-of-themselves like, for example,
the dropping of an atomic bomb by the US on Japan. However, we cannot step
outside of discourse in the interpretation (and therefore the historical
recuperation and incorporation) of that 'factual event'. Thus, historical
representation is contingent and relative. We must however designate some
areas which establish the 'more rightness' of an historical narrative over
and above another one. If not then how can we argue against historical
revisionists who view the Holocaust as mere fabrication? How can we argue
our historical narrative is more correct than theirs?
Doug.
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goes. As far as I understand posties need not deny that historical facts
exist. i.e. non linguistic things in-and-of-themselves like, for example,
the dropping of an atomic bomb by the US on Japan. However, we cannot step
outside of discourse in the interpretation (and therefore the historical
recuperation and incorporation) of that 'factual event'. Thus, historical
representation is contingent and relative. We must however designate some
areas which establish the 'more rightness' of an historical narrative over
and above another one. If not then how can we argue against historical
revisionists who view the Holocaust as mere fabrication? How can we argue
our historical narrative is more correct than theirs?
Doug.
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