Introduction
The New Biography in Historical Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8940405 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jo Burr Margadant (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1045-1045 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/286663 |
| OpenAlex | W2324868191 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
With these astonishing images masking, deception, and flight, Pierre Nora challenged several mandarins the French historical profession to act upon the discovery of the falsity such detachment and the precariousness its supports revealed through two decades historiographical debate by writing a new kind life and times biography called ego-histoire.' Autobiographical in form, this new genre placed Nora's company co-conspirators in the position reflecting on the relationship between living through the experiences fashioned by historians into a national past and the personal perspectives that they brought as professionals to their work. History in ego-histoire becomes a script, historians become actors, and everyone becomes a spectator to the deconstruction the theater which practitioners objective historical investigation had fashioned with themselves offstage. If this manner restating Nora's intentions recalls Michel Foucault's theories about the disciplining power knowledge, it decidedly es
Art history · Biography · French Historical and Cultural Studies · History · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Philosophy, History, and Historiography
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2021 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |