The Postmodern History Reader

by Jenkins; Keith

• ISBN13: 9780415139045
• ISBN10: 041513904X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-08-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Postmodern History Reader is 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 and Baudrillard* individual introductions 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* advice on further reading* access to key writings which are not normally readily available.Presented in a format that is both easy to use and challenging, The Postmodern History Reader will serve as an invaluable course text and reference tool for students and postgraduates.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction: on being open about our closures	1	(35)
Keith Jenkins
PART I ON HISTORY IN THE UPPER CASE: FOR AND AGAINST POSTMODERN HISTORIES
The postmodern condition	36	(3)
Jean-Francois Lyotard
The illusion of the end	39	(8)
Jean Baudrillard
Sequel to history	47	(18)
Elizabeth Ermarth
Romancing the postmodern	65	(10)
Diane Elam
Feminism and deconstruction	66	(9)
White mythologies: writing History and the West	75	(2)
Robert Young
Migrancy, culture, identity	77	(7)
Iain Chambers
Literary criticism and the politics of the New Historicism	84	(5)
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Postmodernizing history: right-wing revisionism and the uses of theory	89	(14)
Christopher Norris
Critical theory, historical materialism, and the ostensible end of Marxism: the poverty of theory revisited	103	(17)
Bryan Palmer
PART II ON HISTORY IN THE LOWER CASE: FOR AND AGAINST THE COLLAPSE OF THE LOWER CASE
The discourse of history	120	(4)
Roland Barthes
Nietzsche, genealogy, history	124	(3)
Michel Foucault
Language and historical representation	127	(12)
Hans Kellner
The challenge of poetics to (normal) historical practice	139	(19)
Robert Berkhofer
Telling it as you like it: postmodernist history and the flight from fact	158	(17)
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Return to essentials	175	(5)
Geoffrey Elton
History, historicism, and the social logic of the text in the Middle Ages	180	(29)
Gabrielle Spiegel
PART III NUANCED OR AMBIGUOUS OTHERS
Telling the truth about history	209	(10)
Joyce Appleby
Lynn Hunt
Margaret Jacob
Outside literature	219	(12)
Tony Bennett
Texts in history	226	(5)
Making history: reflections on feminism, narrative, and desire	231	(11)
Susan Stanford Friedman
PART IV DEBATES FROM THE JOURNALS
Extracts from Past and Present	239	(3)
History and postmodernism	242	(2)
Lawrence Stone
History and postmodernism	244	(6)
Patrick Joyce
History and postmodernism	250	(5)
Catriona Kelly
History and postmodernism	255	(5)
Lawrence Stone
History and postmodernism	260	(17)
Gabrielle Spiegel
Extracts from History and Theory	274	(3)
Historiography and postmodernism	277	(21)
F. R. Ankersmit
Historiography and postmodernism: reconsiderations	298	(17)
P. Zagorin
Extracts from Social History	313	(2)
History, language, ideas and postmodernism: a materialist view	315	(26)
Neville Kirk
The end of social history?	341	(25)
Patrick Joyce
Starting over: the present, the postmodern and the moment of social history	366	(14)
Geoffrey Eley
Keith Nield
The end of social history? A brief reply to Eley and Nield	380	(7)
Patrick Joyce
History and Theory and Saul Friedlander (ed.) Probing the Limits of Representation: The Holocaust Debate	384	(3)
Probing the limits of representation	387	(5)
Saul Friedlander
Historical emplotment and the problem of truth	392	(5)
Hayden White
``Never again'' is now	397	(16)
Hans Kellner
From exception to exemplum: the new approaches to Nazism and the ``Final Solution''	413	(5)
Wulf Kansteiner
The Holocaust and problems of representation	418	(8)
Robert Braun
Is it possible to misrepresent the Holocaust?	426	(8)
Berel Lang
Bibliography	434	(5)
Index of names	439