Under Clio's Post-Critical Eye: for a contingent, deviated or Drag Queen History

Abstract

"History is the art of inventing the past," this means that historiographic discourse is constantly produced and redone, that historical narrative is changing, contingent, fragmented, and made in various ways. It also implies that the historian invents, even if in a "rigorous" way, the past. History, as a practice, discourse, discipline, or literary artifact, is constantly producing a series of discourses about the past, which are constructed in the present and for our own interests. That said, this article is one of several that holds a brief debate about the history writing, product of art or the science of historians, and its dialogue with the so-called post-critical research methodologies, emphasizing, above all, the possible dialogues in history with queer theories.