How to write about the Holocaust : the postmodern theory of history in praxis
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: The rise and fall of postmodernism in historiography -- 1 Hayden White and theory of history -- The significance of Hayden White -- The controversy around White -- Be...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Milton : Taylor & Francis,
2022
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Routledge Approaches to History
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| Schlagworte: | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)-Historiography Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (205 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: The rise and fall of postmodernism in historiography -- 1 Hayden White and theory of history -- The significance of Hayden White -- The controversy around White -- Between historical relativism and linguistic determinism -- The politics of the Whitean theory of history -- The modernist event and the later thought of White -- 2 The legacy of Metahistory: epistemological radicalism and political anxieties for the future of historiography -- Frank Ankersmit and the postmodern theory -- The evolution of postmodernism in the 1980s and 1990s -- Critical voices and new perspectives -- Keith Jenkins and the non-conclusive politics of postmodernism -- Manifestos for History: the first manifesto -- 3 Postmodernism and afterward: theory and politics -- The history manifesto: the second manifesto -- Re-exploring the significance of the historical past in historical practice -- Towards a unified theory: the importance of the Holocaust -- PART II: Postmodernism in Praxis: just another Holocaust history? -- 4 Hayden White and the Holocaust as a modernist event -- The politics of historical interpretation -- Probing the limits of representation: the White-Ginzburg debate -- Saul Friedländer: the apogee of the Whitean theory -- 5 The uniqueness-comparability argument: a postmodern approach -- The uniqueness-comparability debate -- A radical compromise -- Holocaust, genocide, colonialism: postmodernism and global perspectives -- Dan Stone: a critical postmodern history of the Holocaust -- 6 Beyond historiography: the 21st-century historical novel -- Alternative forms of historical representation -- Postmodernism and literature -- Between literature and historiography: Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones -- Conclusion -- Bibliography. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (205 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781000584943 1000584941 9781032123981 1032123982 |