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WHY ALLEGORY, WHY HISTORY?

Joshua Decter: from "Allegories of Cultural Criticism (Re-Framing the Present)"

The re-construction of history, the recovery of repressed pasts and voices,the re-framing of the present, the revision of memory, the dismantling of mythologies, the re-fictionalization of experience, the arresting of identity: such tasks and processes are now under the purview of multiple disciplines and practices. The cultural anthropologist, the social scientist, the revisionist historian, the postmodern philosopher, the visual artist, the filmmaker - these diverse "disciplinary" capacities may find a common ground with the desire to produce modes of cultural criticism.