| Description |
xiii, 443 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: on being open about our closures / Keith Jenkins -- 2. The postmodern condition / Jean-Francois Lyotard -- 3. The illusion of the end / Jean Baudrillard -- 4. Sequel to history / Elizabeth Ermarth -- 5. Romancing the postmodern / Diane Elam -- Feminism and deconstruction / Diane Elam -- 6. White mythologies: writing History and the West / Robert Young -- 7. Migrancy, culture, identity / Iain Chambers -- 8. Literary criticism and the politics of the New Historicism / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- 9. Postmodernizing history: right-wing revisionism and the uses of theory / Christopher Norris -- 10. Critical theory, historical materialism, and the ostensible end of Marxism: the poverty of theory revisited / Bryan Palmer -- 11. The discourse of history / Roland Barthes -- 12. Nietzsche, genealogy, history / Michel Foucault -- 13. Language and historical representation / Hans Kellner -- 14. The challenge of poetics to (normal) historical practice / Robert Berkhofer -- 15. Telling it as you like it: postmodernist history and the flight from fact / Gertrude Himmelfarb -- 16. Return to essentials / Geoffrey Elton -- 17. History, historicism, and the social logic of the text in the Middle Ages / Gabrielle Spiegel -- 18. Telling the truth about history / Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob -- 19. Outside literature / Tony Bennett -- Texts in history / Tony Bennett -- 20. Making history: reflections on feminism, narrative, and desire / Susan Stanford Friedman -- 21. History and postmodernism / Lawrence Stone -- 22. History and postmodernism / Patrick Joyce -- 23. History and postmodernism / Catriona Kelly -- 24. History and postmodernism / Lawrence Stone -- 25. History and postmodernism / Gabrielle Spiegel -- 26. Historiography and postmodernism / F. R. Ankersmit -- 27. Historiography and postmodernism: reconsiderations / P. Zagorin -- 28. History, language, ideas and postmodernism: a materialist view / Neville Kirk -- 29. The end of social history? / Patrick Joyce -- 30. Starting over the present, the postmodern and the moment of social history / Geoffrey Eley and Keith Nield -- 31. The end of social history? A brief reply to Eley and Nield / Patrick Joyce -- History and Theory and Saul Friedlander (ed.) Probing the Limits of Representation: The Holocaust Debate -- 32. Probing the limits of representation / Saul Friedlander -- 33. Historical emplotment and the problem of truth / Hayden White -- 34. "Never again" is now / Hans Kellner -- 35. From exception to exemplum: the new approaches to Nazism and the "Final Solution" / Wulf Kansteiner -- 36. The Holocaust and problems of representation / Robert Braun -- 37. Is it possible to misrepresent the Holocaust? / Berel Lang |
| Summary |
The most comprehensive collection of influential texts on historiography and postmodernism yet compiled. Keith Jenkins expertly selects from the books and journal articles across the whole historiographical range that have been key to the transforming debates. This unique reader is a clear introduction to the impact of postmodernism on historical debate, allowing easy access to one of the more stimulating and exciting areas of current history. It provides: extracts from influential historians, such as Barthes, Joyce, White, Foucault, Baudrillard and Ankersmit; individual contributions to each carefully defined debate; many thoroughly up-to-date as well as 'classic' pieces; texts from a range of subdisciplines in history and theory; arguments both for and against postmodernism; access to key writings that are not normally readily available; advice on further reading |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 434-438) and index |
| Subject |
Historiography.
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Postmodernism.
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Historiography.
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| Author |
Jenkins, Keith, 1943-
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| LC no. |
96042429 |
| ISBN |
0415139031 |
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041513904X (paperback) |
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