Psychoanalysis, Historiography, and Feminist Theory
Psychoanalysis, Historiography, and Feminist Theory
$43.99
USDIn this book Katherine Kearns explores the relationship of history to narrative. She combines psychoanalysis with recent feminist theory to reveal the hidden assumptions behind the construction of any historical narrative. Her alternative approach, one she labels psychohistoriography, rejects the notion that certain historical categories are inalienably given. By introducing insights derived from psychoanalysis and critical theory, Kearns expands our conception of what can legitimately count as historical evidence.
- Combines psychoanalysis with feminist theory to offer new way of conceiving of historical narratives
- Strong endorsement from Dominick LaCapra, leading critic in this area
Reviews & endorsements
"This is a witty, acute, refreshingly modest, and yet far-reaching study that is arguably the first book seriously to challeneg from an informed feminist angle the received notions of legitimation, authority, and evidence in historical and literary narratives." Richard Macksey, John Hopkins University Press
Product details
November 1997Paperback
9780521587549
183 pages
216 × 138 × 12 mm
0.235kg
Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Oedipal pedagogy: becoming a woman
- 2. Strange Angels: negation and performativity
- 3. Daddy: notes upon an autobiographical account of paranoia
- 4. Telling stories: historiography and narrative
- Conclusion
- Index.
