From: "Doug Stokes" <dstokes14-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: History of ...
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:55:16 GMT


Isn’t Hayden White the main dude as far as a post structural histography 
goes. As far as I understand posties need not deny that historical facts 
exist. i.e. non linguistic things in-and-of-themselves like, for example, 
the dropping of an atomic bomb by the US on Japan. However, we cannot step 
outside of discourse in the interpretation (and therefore the historical 
recuperation and incorporation) of that 'factual event'. Thus, historical 
representation is contingent and relative. We must however designate some 
areas which establish the 'more rightness' of an historical narrative over 
and above another one. If not then how can we argue against historical 
revisionists who view the Holocaust as mere fabrication? How can we argue 
our historical narrative is more correct than theirs?

Doug.



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