Historical Discourse and Intertextuality/Intra-textuality
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Though intertextuality has found unique expression in postmodern fictions that are characterized as ironic, parodic, and paradoxical, this paper puts forth an alternative use of intertextuality (or intra-textual engagement), practiced at various communication levels but not duly observed, and illustrates the rich potentials and diversities of intertextual activities, which cannot be reified by any dominant language theory. With the instances of some news-reports and court transcriptions related to the Detroit Riot in 1967, as encapsulated in John Hersey’s The Algiers Motel Incident, the paper argues that the coexistence of various textual modes and epistemological frames are less the formal expression of a textual aporia than the condition of historical knowledge. The writers, whether they be historians or reporter-writers, penetrate, intersect, and saturate the historical event through various textual representations, and by so doing, they reconcile news content with narrative form, and social reality with discursive representation. Though discrete and fragmentary, these multiple textual versions of reality form a composite relationship as a story, each complementing and supporting one another, and also contradicting and floating, but, nevertheless, approximating to what Jerome Bruner calls "a properly pragmatic view of the Real."
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Though intertextuality has found unique expression in postmodern fictions that are characterized as ironic, parodic, and paradoxical, this paper puts forth an alternative use of intertextuality (or intra-textual engagement), practiced at various communication levels but not duly observed, and illustrates the rich potentials and diversities of intertextual activities, which cannot be reified by any dominant language theory. With the instances of some news-reports and court transcriptions related to the Detroit Riot in 1967, as encapsulated in John Hersey’s The Algiers Motel Incident, the paper argues that the coexistence of various textual modes and epistemological frames are less the formal expression of a textual aporia than the condition of historical knowledge. The writers, whether they be historians or reporter-writers, penetrate, intersect, and saturate the historical event through various textual representations, and by so doing, they reconcile news content with narrative form, and social reality with discursive representation. Though discrete and fragmentary, these multiple textual versions of reality form a composite relationship as a story, each complementing and supporting one another, and also contradicting and floating, but, nevertheless, approximating to what Jerome Bruner calls "a properly pragmatic view of the Real."
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