Condición de subalternidad, condición postmoderna y saber histórico: ¿Hacia una nueva forma de escritura de la historia?

• Autores: Guillermo Zermeño Padilla
• Localización: Historia y grafía, ISSN 1405-0927, Nº. 12, 1999, págs. 11-47
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Subaltern Condition, Postmodern Condition, and Historic Knowledge: Towards a New Configuration of Historic Writing?
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• Resumen

  • Nowadays, the discipline of history is immersed in a process that involves a thorough revision and renewal of its theoretical and methodological presuppositions. This does not only entail the incorporation of new subjects into its stock or the opening up of further sources for history. What is stake is rather something else, namely, the very content that molds the form of historic writing. But how to neme this recently inaugurated locus for discussion, and which are some of the implications it has for the work of the historian? Such problematization reaches, however, a higher degree of severity when it comes to rescuing the topics of the "popular" or subaltern classes from the grip of forgetfulness, so as to enrich history. The essay shows the relevance that the contributions of the historians gathered around the Subaltern Studies journal may have for this discussion. The approach relies on three axes: firstly, that which provides the means for inscribing their work within the margins of a theoretical-political discussion endowed with a larger scope (to wit, the significance of historiography to overcome some of the limitations of social history (a set of actions that imply the return of the "cultural" to history); and thirdly, the axis whereby one becomes aware, nonetheless, of the existence of problems - such as teology, impartiality, and causality - that are intrinsic to the traditional discourse of history. The debate is open, but it requires that the interlocutors confront the issues radically enough, given "the force of the crisis".