History

Text: Future

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ID20156609
AuthorsMichaël Green (0000-0002-5488-3828, University of KwaZulu-Natal, corresponding author)
Year1990
Volume6
Issue3
Pages180-199
Publication date1990-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387
PublisherUnisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA)
DOI10.1080/02564719008529946
OpenAlexW2016376217
LanguageEN
References cited28

This article is an investigation into the historiographical concerns that inform any literary projection of the historical past and/or present into the future. Parts 1–3, then, survey the status of the future in the textualization of history, engaging with narrative versus nomological accounts of historiographical structures and moving towards the Utopian element informing historical projection. Part 4 picks up the more specifically “literary” concerns to which a consideration of the Utopian brings us, and prepares a critical strategy for dealing with the intersection of the historical and the literary in their use of the future. The project as it stands is meant to serve as a preparation for a later analysis of key South African literary works which operate within the “genre” (developed as a heuristic device) of “future histories”

Epistemology · Linguistics · Sociology · Computer Science · Philosophy · Philosophy, History, and Historiography

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