WHITE,FRIEDLÄNDER, “… AND THE REST IS HISTORY”: A PAX HISTORIANA |
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| Authors: | Berel Lang |
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| Affiliation: | State University of New York at Albany, Emeritus |
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| Abstract: | Close analysis of the ostensive disagreement between Saul Friedländer and Hayden White on the necessarily literary character of Holocaust historiography shows instead of conflict two compatible and even mutually supportive emphases in that project: the assumption in modernist and disruptive narratives as elsewhere of a “corpus of facts,” together with the role of figurative discourse in conveying relevant features of events that linear chronological or causal narratives alone do not convey. |
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| Keywords: | facts figurative discourse Saul Friedlä nder historiography holocaust narrative Hayden White |
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