Meaning of allohistorical | Babel Free

Definitions

Relating to alternate history, either as a discipline or genre, or as a specific counterfactual sequence of events.

not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“If [Alexander] Demandt's essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999.”

“Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use⟳ of one's reason⟳”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.”

“The question⟳ of the plausibility of the counter-factual is seen as key in all three discussions of allohistorical fiction (as it is in [Alexander] Demandt's and [Niall] Ferguson's examinations of allohistory)[…].”

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