A History that does not yet exist. Historiography and the Postcolonial Question at the Crossroads of Postmodernity

This historiographical essay explores the relationship between postmodern criticism and postcolonial studies within context of challenges historiography today. Starting with a reconstruction role historical discipline in modern colonial expansion, we situate crisis as one that centrally crosses discourses has produced series bifurcations isolations concerning debates rest social sciences humanities. We analyze bifurcation field studies, on hand, estrangement production criticism, other. The present article aims to offer new hypotheses will explain divergence studies.