You tell 'em, Harry.

[ahorbinski]

At bottom, all historical practice is an act of criticism. At the same time that theory enables us to imagine the framing operation involved in the formulation of any analytic program, it must teach us that our own perspectives possess no privilege over others, since its power lies precisely in the capacity to make visible the frames from which our categories of representation derive. In this way, historical criticism can never be far from political purpose.

--Harry D. Harootunian, Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism (2)

I really can't understate how much I agree with this. Historiography is an act of narrative, and as such its schemes of representation are no more immune from the operations of critical theory than literature, or life.