History as a Kind of Writing: Textual Strategies in Contemporary French Historiography

In academia, the traditional role of the humanities is being questioned by the "posts"—postmodernism, poststructuralism, and postfeminism—which means that the project of writing history only grows more complex. In History as a Kind of Writing, scholar of French literature and culture Philippe Carrard speaks to this complexity by focusing the lens on the current state of French historiography.

Carrard's work here is expansive—examining the conventions historians draw on to produce their tex...