What legitimate form can history take when faced by the severe
challenges issued in recent years by literary, rhetorical,
multiculturalist, and feminist theories? That is the question
considered in this long-awaited and pathbreaking book. Robert F.
Berkhofer, Jr., addresses the essential practical concern of
contemporary historians; he offers a way actually to go about
reading and writing histories in light of the many contesting
theories.
Berkhofer ranges through a vast archive of recent writings by a
broad range of authors. He explicates the opposing paradigms and
their corresponding dilemmas by presenting in dialogue form the
positions of modernists and postmodernists, formalists and
deconstructionists, textualists and contextualists.
Poststructuralism, the New Historicism, the New Anthropology, the
New Philosophy of History--these and many other approaches are
illuminated in new ways in these comprehensive, interdisciplinary
explorations.
From them, Berkhofer arrives at a clear vision of the forms
historical discourse might take, advocates a new approach to
historical criticism, and proposes new forms of historical
representation that encompass multiculturalism, poetics, and
reflexive (con)textualization. He elegantly blends traditional and
new methodology; assesses what the "revival of the narrative"
actually entails; considers the politics of disciplinary
frameworks; and derives coherent new approaches to writing,
teaching, reviewing, and reading histories.
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