History at the limit of world-history / Ranajit Guha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guha, Ranajit.

Series:

Italian Academy lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World history.

Historiography.

History--Philosophy.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 116 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2002]

Summary:

One of the most influential figures in postcolonial and subaltern studies develops a critique of historiography by taking issue with the Hegelian concept of World-history. That concept, he argues, reduces the world to Europe and history to what concerns the state alone. To go beyond the Eurocentric and statist limit of World-history, historians should learn from literature to make their narratives doubly inclusive: to extend them in scope not only to make room for the pasts of the so-called peoples without history but to address the historicality of everyday life as well.

Contents:

2. Historicality and the Prose of the World 7

3. The Prose of History, or The Invention of World-History 24

4. Experience, Wonder, and the Pathos of Historicality 48

5. Epilogue: The Poverty of Historiography

a Poet's Reproach 75

Appendix Historicality in Literature / Rabindranath Tagore 95.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [101]-108) and index.

ISBN:

023112418X

OCLC:

48077506