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My aim in this article is to put an end to the continued either-or debate regarding the literary nature of history, whereby attention so easily returns to the fact–fiction issue. To prevent a relapse into this unfruitful argument, I offer a reading that is sensitive to the non-literary aspects of history writing and views them productively, rather than as a problem to be brushed aside in theoretical debate. In an attempt to 'accentuate the positive,' I thus foreground strengths that are specific to history, that follow from historians' core commitments. Beyond this questioning of more extreme, purportedly narrativist claims, I take issue with the realist, 'negative' tendencies that similarly stem from a refusal to accept history's contradictory desires. These are particularly evident in the current, popular embrace of presence and experience in talk about the past. I argue that greater sensitivity is needed in rethinking history practices in this direction too, since an uncritical focus on reality encourages reactionary views and representations. Understanding the ways in which these newer debates effectively serve to limit opportunities for societal critique is essential if we wish to see why and how history can remain a useful pursuit.
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/vw7fYc7RBbzwTPhfp4jV/full
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The article approaches history as a genre with specific strengths and weaknesses that stem from its commitment to deal with the past truthfully. Although examination of this commitment has most often led to epistemological debates, that is not the intention here. Instead the goal is to fast-forward past any discussion of the possibilities for objectivity, sincerity, truthfulness, and so on, to engage with the question of what history can and cannot 'do,' and thus with the consequences of historians' generic and disciplinary commitments. While this discussion will inevitably relate to the impact historians' practices have on the potential forms of history writing, and hence ties in also with the broader debate about narrative representation, that, again, is not the main focus. Rather, and based on this charting of the scope and capacities of academic history as a genre, the core objective is to tackle the question of history's relevance beyond the limited arena of specifically 'historical' knowing – whatever the specifics of its epistemological standing or presentational form. The kinds of questions asked, then, are: How do current genre commitments position historians in relation to broader sensibilities about the past? What (if any) are the opportunities that they offer and the constraints that they place on contemporary history culture? To what extent might the genre circumscribe historians' social utility? A central means for approaching these questions is found in affirming the distinction between 'the historical past' and 'the practical past' as these have been reintroduced to the debate by Hayden White during the past decade.
The article proposes that, despite its radical intentions, constructivist theorizing has played a role in the institutionalization and consequent watering down of oppositional approaches. On the most basic level, this claim may be seen simply to reiterate arguments against a postmodernist universalization of difference: if ‘anything goes’, nothing can be used to question the status quo. The article goes beyond such a discussion of epistemological scepticism, however, investigating particular ways in which the constructivist demand for new forms of history writing has redefined the task of historians so that even opposition is considered more a representational than a political strategy.
http://www.historeinonline.org/index.php/historein/article/view/10
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During the last decade or so, there has been mounting dissatisfaction with the extremes of the linguistic turn. The kind of textualism derived from literary theory readings that subscribe to “the endless play of signifiers” with no contact point beyond language seems ill-suited to historical studies. Even more moderate appeals to textualism seem to introduce as many problems as they solve. Following the acceptance of the linguistic turn in historical theory, history has increasingly come to be viewed as a second-order literary pursuit. Hence, perhaps, the practical or “historical turn”, or even an “empirical turn”, by those more historically minded. In this situation, one of the main challenges in historical theory is to retain the achievements of the linguistic turn concerning ideology and power while defining what history’s particular role and legitimate applications might be.
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HnvNYeVxmmdBYepmFfnP/full
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My aim in this article is to put an end to the continued either-or debate regarding the literary nature of history, whereby attention so easily returns to the fact–fiction issue. To prevent a relapse into this unfruitful argument, I offer a reading that is sensitive to the non-literary aspects of history writing and views them productively, rather than as a problem to be brushed aside in theoretical debate. In an attempt to 'accentuate the positive,' I thus foreground strengths that are specific to history, that follow from historians' core commitments. Beyond this questioning of more extreme, purportedly narrativist claims, I take issue with the realist, 'negative' tendencies that similarly stem from a refusal to accept history's contradictory desires. These are particularly evident in the current, popular embrace of presence and experience in talk about the past. I argue that greater sensitivity is needed in rethinking history practices in this direction too, since an uncritical focus on reality encourages reactionary views and representations. Understanding the ways in which these newer debates effectively serve to limit opportunities for societal critique is essential if we wish to see why and how history can remain a useful pursuit.
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/vw7fYc7RBbzwTPhfp4jV/full
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The article approaches history as a genre with specific strengths and weaknesses that stem from its commitment to deal with the past truthfully. Although examination of this commitment has most often led to epistemological debates, that is not the intention here. Instead the goal is to fast-forward past any discussion of the possibilities for objectivity, sincerity, truthfulness, and so on, to engage with the question of what history can and cannot 'do,' and thus with the consequences of historians' generic and disciplinary commitments. While this discussion will inevitably relate to the impact historians' practices have on the potential forms of history writing, and hence ties in also with the broader debate about narrative representation, that, again, is not the main focus. Rather, and based on this charting of the scope and capacities of academic history as a genre, the core objective is to tackle the question of history's relevance beyond the limited arena of specifically 'historical' knowing – whatever the specifics of its epistemological standing or presentational form. The kinds of questions asked, then, are: How do current genre commitments position historians in relation to broader sensibilities about the past? What (if any) are the opportunities that they offer and the constraints that they place on contemporary history culture? To what extent might the genre circumscribe historians' social utility? A central means for approaching these questions is found in affirming the distinction between 'the historical past' and 'the practical past' as these have been reintroduced to the debate by Hayden White during the past decade.
The article proposes that, despite its radical intentions, constructivist theorizing has played a role in the institutionalization and consequent watering down of oppositional approaches. On the most basic level, this claim may be seen simply to reiterate arguments against a postmodernist universalization of difference: if ‘anything goes’, nothing can be used to question the status quo. The article goes beyond such a discussion of epistemological scepticism, however, investigating particular ways in which the constructivist demand for new forms of history writing has redefined the task of historians so that even opposition is considered more a representational than a political strategy.
http://www.historeinonline.org/index.php/historein/article/view/10
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During the last decade or so, there has been mounting dissatisfaction with the extremes of the linguistic turn. The kind of textualism derived from literary theory readings that subscribe to “the endless play of signifiers” with no contact point beyond language seems ill-suited to historical studies. Even more moderate appeals to textualism seem to introduce as many problems as they solve. Following the acceptance of the linguistic turn in historical theory, history has increasingly come to be viewed as a second-order literary pursuit. Hence, perhaps, the practical or “historical turn”, or even an “empirical turn”, by those more historically minded. In this situation, one of the main challenges in historical theory is to retain the achievements of the linguistic turn concerning ideology and power while defining what history’s particular role and legitimate applications might be.
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