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Is it possible to be the poet of a story? Historiography is often presented as a structured answer to the question “what happened?” Documents are found, events are ordered, individuals and dates are placed in their proper context. This framework is not entirely wrong; but it is incomplete. For history is not merely a conduit for information. We cannot access the past directly; the past reaches us mostly through texts, records, labels, and other mediating tools. Therefore, in historiography, lang

Jacques Derrida’s understanding of history views the past not as a direct representation but as a continuous process of meaning-making that is deferred and reconstructed through language, discourse, and ideology. Jacques Derrida, a philosopher who questioned the boundaries of modern thought and critiqued the epistemological foundations of traditional disciplines, developed a distinct perspective in historiography. Derrida’s deconstruction theory offers a critical perspective not only on language