El Holocaust, postmodernity, and textual anxieties: a reading on Hayden White

Abstract

In this article the author analyses “Postmodernism and Tex tual Anxieties”, a paper written by Hayden White, where the American historian leaves several clews for understanding his own historical and ethical thought. In particular, his distinction between fact and event, his theory of “modernist event”, his vision about postmodernity and textual anxieties and his analysis of the Holocaust.