Historical Representation and the Scriptural Economy of Imperialism: Assia Djebar’s L’Amour, la fantasia and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian
2000; Penn State University Press; Volume: 37; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/cls.2000.0002
ISSN1528-4212
Autores Tópico(s)Political Theology and Sovereignty
ResumoIn recent years, literary studies has begun to theorize the manifold ways in which the writing of history comes to be enmeshed within the complex texturology of political realities circumventing its locus of production. Part of this effort has been concerned with investigating the conditions under which the writing of history may reinforce, or at times disrupt, the mechanisms that enable those realities to gain their affective [End Page 18] force and thus to legitimize their status as "realities" in the first place. As has been amply demonstrated by Hayden White and others, Western historiography as we know it today was conceived toward the end of the eighteenth century and flourished throughout the nineteenth, 1 and as such it was a product and extension of those social processes that had consolidated the power of the modern nation-state. This same period, of course, was witness to the global spread of European colonialism, and thus also to those gargantuan ideological efforts contemporary critics have conceptualized as colonial meaning-production: a complex set of operations mobilizing various socio-political apparati of the burgeoning nation-state--not the least of which was historiography.
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