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Title: | Exploring beyond History with a capital 'H' |
Authors: | Nuttall, Tim Wright, John |
Year: | 1998 |
Periodical: | Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 38-61 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subject: | historiography |
Abstract: | Many academic historians in South Africa today are in a state of increasing uncertainty and confusion about both the status of their discipline and what it is that, as historians, they are supposed to be doing. This article first identifies the more significant locally rooted causes of a sense of crisis among academic historians in South Africa. The author deals, amongst others, with the effects of the collapse of apartheid and the issue of how postmodern ideas have challenged modernist history. Then the article outlines the ways in which South African historians have responded to postmodern ideas and emphasizes the need for modernist academic historians to think more critically about the historical roots of their own practices. Finally, the article outlines some of the ways in which South African historians are trying to engage with the challenges to modernist History. Bibliogr., ref. |