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History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory. By Dominick La Capra. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2004. xi + 276 pages.

In the years since the publication of Hayden White's Metahistory in 1973, a book that forced us to understand the tropological dimension of history and historical writing, the world of the historian and the world of the literary scholar have been inextricably linked. White's book not only marked a clear divide between history as what happened and history as writing, but it also gave historians, philosophers, and literary critics permission to understand ...

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