Abstract

FLORES, Roberto. Historiographical Representation: Narrative and Intentionality. Hist. graf [online]. 2010, n.34, pp.133-163. ISSN 1405-0927.

If indisputably historiography refers to the past, the manner in which it does is subject to debate. Historical events are directly inexpressible and tend to become a narrative of occurrences: by doing so they jeopardize the proper sequentiality of accounts. The objective of this paper is to question sequentiality under the light of the phenomenological theories of intentionaliy, in particular that of the double orientation of time, retentive and protentive. From this perspective, historiographical representation is conceived as the process of recreating an event, a recreation on the part of the reader of the history of another's experience, and not as a reference to historical events. An analysis of a fragment from fray Bernardino de Sahagun's Florentine Codex (XVI century) will illustrate this argument and expose the way in which the narrative itself appeals to the interpretative collaboration of the history's receiver.

Keywords : historical narrative; sequentiality; intentionality; representation; mental spaces.

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