Historiography through a testimonial bias

Abstract

This paper considers the interrelationships between testimonial statements and historiographic production from the hypothesis that, under certain epistemic and theoretical criteria the writing of History can assume contours of a testimonial statement. It is our intent to determine such criteria using a fourfold approach: the real under the status of limit situation; the simultaneous temporal activation of memories, expectations for the future and dilemmas of the present; discourse supports that grant meaning and credibility; the ethic-political interpellation as to boundaries and alliances of a testimonial knowledge with public life.