Allohistorical
"Allohistorical" in a Sentence (3 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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