- Spencer , L. 1998 . The Icon Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought Edited by: Sim , S. 160 Cambridge ‘Postmodernism, Modernity, and the Tradition of Dissent’, in, ed.
- John , L. 1997 . Of Revelation and Revolution 40 – 1 . and Jean Comaroff, vol. 2 (Chicago
- Ankersmit , F. R. 1990 . ‘Reply to Professor Zagorin’ . History and Theory , 29 : 281
- Jenkins , K. 1995 . On ‘What is History?’: From Carr and Elton to Rorty and White 29 – 30 . London
- Marwick , A. 1995 . ‘Two Approaches to Historical Study: The Metaphysical (including “Postmodernism”) and the Historical’ . Journal of Contemporary History , 30 : 29
- Eley , G. and Nield , K. 1997 . The Postmodern History Reader Edited by: Jenkins , K. London See, for instance, ‘Starting Over: The Present, the Postmodern and the Moment of Social History’, in, ed., (375;T. Nuttall and J. Wright, ‘Moving beyond Modernist History: “A Bunch of Lemmings Rushing for the Cliff?”’ (unpublished paper, Pietermaritzburg, 1997), 3. A measured, but critical, response from an historian to the postmodernist challenge is provided by R.J. Evans, In Defence of History (London, 1997)
- Evans . In Defence of History 107–8
- Etherington , N. 1996 . ‘Po-Mo and SA History’ . Southern African Review of Books , 44 : 11 (July/Aug.
- Evans , Quoted in . In Defence of History 12
- Jenkins . On ‘What is History? 32
- Ibid., 6; also quoted in Evans, In Defence of History, 12–13. Etherington makes a similar point in ‘Po-Mo and SA History’, 11
- White , H. 1995 . ‘Response to Arthur Marwick’ . Journal of Contemporary History , 30 : 239
- The same point has been made by Neville Kirk in his critique of Patrick Joyce and Gareth Stedman Jones. The latter strive to investigate the links between the linguistic, the social, the political, and the economic. But, asks Kirk, how can this be done if there is no social, political or economic reality? N. Kirk, ‘History, Language, Ideas and Postmodernism: A Materialist View’, in Jenkins, Postmodern History Reader, 321
- 1991 . Of Revelation and Revolution Vol. 1 , See, for instance, John and Jean Comaroff, vol.Christianity, Colonialism and Consciousness in South Africa (Chicago, and Of Revelation and Revolution, vol. 2: The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier (Chicago, 1997);L. de Kock, Civilising Barbarians: Missionary Narrative and African Textual Response in Nineteenth-Century South Africa (Johannesburg, 1996)
- Hamilton , C. 1998 . Terrific Majesty: The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Invention Cape Town See (D. Wylie, ‘White Writers and ShakaZulu’ (PhD thesis, Rhodes University, 1995);D. Golan, Inventing Shaka: Using History in the Construction of Zulu Nationalism (Boulder, 1994)
- Ashforth , A. 1990 . The Politics of Official Discourse in Twentieth-Century South Africa Oxford See (A.J. Norval, Deconstructing Apartheid Discourse (London, 1996)
- See, for instance, the work of Saul Dubow and Paul Rich on segregationist ideology and racial theory
- Norval . Deconstructing Apartheid Discourse 59
- Kock , De . Civilising Barbarians 8–9
- Crais , C. C. 1992 . The Making of the Colonial Order: White Supremacy and Black Resistance in the Eastern Cape, 1770–1865 Johannesburg
- Norval . Deconstructing Apartheid Discourse, 2.
- Ibid., 3
- Ibid., 12
- Ibid., 51
- Ibid., 2
- Ibid., 7
- Ibid., 60
- Ashforth . Politics of Official Discourse.
- Kock , De . Civilising Barbarians 19
- Ibid., 21
- Ibid., 64.
- Comaroff , Comaroff and . Of Revelation and Revolution vol. 2, pp. 19–20
- Bundy , C. , Cooper , B. and Steyn , A. 1996 . Transgressing Boundaries 37 Cape Town eds
- Evans . In Defence of History 200
- Palmer , B. 1990 . Descent into Discourse 204 Philadelphia (The point has also been well made by Novick, drawing attention to a more extreme use of jargon: The dust jacket of a recent work in intellectual history carried the prediction by Mark Poster that “no historian who reads and comprehends this book will ever write in the same way again”. This promise (or threat) was limited by the qualifying “and comprehends”: while the author of the book helpfully provided a glossary of such terms as “distransitivity”, “actantial/octant”, and “psychologeme”, there were no entries for terms which presumably all but the hopelessly illiterate commanded, like “chrononym”, “dromomatics”, and “intradiegetic”’: P. Novick, That Noble Dream (Cambridge, 1988), 588–9
- Kansteiner , W. 1996 . ‘Searching for an Audience: The Historical Profession in the Media Age—A Comment on Arthur Marwick and Hayden White’ . Journal of Contemporary History , 31
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