Narrative Pasts

Author : Jyoti Gulati Balachandran
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190991968

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Narrative Pasts by Jyoti Gulati Balachandran Pdf

This book explores the narrative power of texts in creating communities. Through an investigation of genealogical, historical, and biographical texts, it retrieves the social history of the Muslim community in Gujarat, a region with one of the earliest records of Muslim presence in the Indian subcontinent. By reconstructing the literary, social, and historical world of Sufi preceptors, disciples, and descendants from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, Jyoti Gulati Balachandran highlights the role of learned Muslim men in imparting a prominent regional and historical identity to Gujarat. The book reveals how distinct forms of community and association were created and shaped over time through architecture, shrine veneration, and most importantly, textual redefinition. Narrative Pasts demonstrates that Gujarat was not only an important hub of maritime Indian Ocean trade, but also an integral part of the historical and narrative processes that shaped medieval and early modern South Asia. Employing new and rarely used literary materials in Persian and Arabic, this book brings new life and vitality to the history of the region by integrating Gujarat’s sultanate and Mughal past with the larger socio-cultural histories of Islamic South Asia.

Author : Jyoti Gulati Balachandran
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0190123990

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Narrative Pasts by Jyoti Gulati Balachandran Pdf

Narrative Pasts reconstructs the literary, social and historical world of Sufi preceptors, disciples, and descendants in Gujarat from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. This book departs from the narrow state-centered visions of the Muslim past and integrates Gujarat's sultanate and Mughal past to the larger socio-cultural histories of Islamic South Asia.

Author : Shami Ghosh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004305816

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Writing the Barbarian Past: Studies in Early Medieval Historical Narrative by Shami Ghosh Pdf

This book provides studies of narratives concerning the distant, ‘barbarian’ past, composed c.550–c.1000, ranging from Latin ‘national’ histories to Latin and vernacular epics and lays, and examines the place of this past in early medieval historical consciousness.

Author : P. Ashton,H. Kean
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230234468

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People and their Pasts by P. Ashton,H. Kean Pdf

In this innovative and original collection, people are seen as active agents in the development of new ways of understanding the past and creating histories for the present. Chapters explore forms of public history in which people's experience and understanding of their personal, national and local pasts are part of their current lives.

Author : Stefan Berger,Nicola Brauch,Chris Lorenz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800730472

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Analysing Historical Narratives by Stefan Berger,Nicola Brauch,Chris Lorenz Pdf

For all of the recent debates over the methods and theoretical underpinnings of the historical profession, scholars and laypeople alike still frequently think of history in terms of storytelling. Accordingly, historians and theorists have devoted much attention to how historical narratives work, illuminating the ways they can bind together events, shape an argument and lend support to ideology. From ancient Greece to modern-day bestsellers, the studies gathered here offer a wide-ranging analysis of the textual strategies used by historians. They show how in spite of the pursuit of truth and objectivity, the ways in which historians tell their stories are inevitably conditioned by their discursive contexts.

Author : Julia A. King
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781572338883

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Archaeology, Narrative, and the Politics of the Past by Julia A. King Pdf

In this innovative work, Julia King moves nimbly among a variety of sources and disciplinary approaches—archaeological, historical, architectural, literary, and art-historical—to show how places take on, convey, and maintain meanings. Focusing on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay region of Maryland, King looks at the ways in which various groups, from patriots and politicians of the antebellum era to present-day archaeologists and preservationists, have transformed key landscapes into historical, indeed sacred, spaces. The sites King examines include the region’s vanishing tobacco farms; St. Mary’s City, established as Maryland’s first capital by English settlers in the seventeenth century; and Point Lookout, the location of a prison for captured Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. As the author explores the historical narratives associated with such places, she uncovers some surprisingly durable myths as well as competing ones. St. Mary’s City, for example, early on became the center of Maryland’s “founding narrative” of religious tolerance, a view commemorated in nineteenth-century celebrations and reflected even today in local museum exhibits and preserved buildings. And at Point Lookout, one private group has established a Confederate Memorial Park dedicated to those who died at the prison, thus nurturing the Lost Cause ideology that arose in the South in the late 1800s, while nearby the custodians of a 1,000-acre state park avoid controversy by largely ignoring the area’s Civil War history, preferring instead to concentrate on recreation and tourism, an unusually popular element of which has become the recounting of ghost stories. As King shows, the narratives that now constitute the public memory in southern Maryland tend to overlook the region’s more vexing legacies, particularly those involving slavery and race. Noting how even her own discipline of historical archaeology has been complicit in perpetuating old narratives, King calls for research—particularly archaeological research—that produces new stories and “counter-narratives” that challenge old perceptions and interpretations and thus convey a more nuanced grasp of a complicated past. Julia A. King is an associate professor of anthropology at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where she coordinates the Museum Studies Program and directs the SlackWater Center, a consortium devoted to exploring, documenting, and interpreting the changing landscapes of Chesapeake communities. She is also coeditor, with Dennis B. Blanton, of Indian and European Contact in Context: The Mid-Atlantic Region.

Author : Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004516922

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Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire by Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou Pdf

This book argues that Herodian uses an orderly and coherent historiographical form to reconfigure and explicate a most chaotic period of Roman history. Through patterning he offers a distinctive interpretative framework in which successive reigns and individual emperors need to be read in a dovetailed way.

Author : AA. VV.
Publisher : LED Edizioni Universitarie
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23T11:25:00+01:00
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9788879168168

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Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism. Vol. 4, No. 1 (2016). Past the Human: Narrative Ontologies and Ontological Stories: Part I by AA. VV. Pdf

TABLE OF CONTENTS. EDITORIAL: Past the Human: Narrative Ontologies and Ontological Stories, Serenella Iovino, Roberto Marchesini, Eleonora Adorni - INTRODUCTION: Posthumanism in Literature and Ecocriticism, Serenella Iovino - STUDIES AND RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS: From Posthumanism to Posthuman Ecocriticim, Serpil Oppermann - Threatening Animals?, Heather I. Sullivan - The Posthuman that Could Have Been: Mary Shelley's Creature, Margarita Carretero González - Gadda's Pasticciaccio and the Knotted Posthuman Household, Deborah Amberson, Elena Past - Posthuman Spaces of Relation: Literary Responses to the Species Boundary in Primate Literature, Diana Villanueva Romero - COMMENTS, DEBATES, REPORTS AND INTERVIEWS: Can the Humanities Become Post-human? Interview with Rosi Braidotti ,Cosetta Veronese - REVIEWS

Author : Charlotte Linde
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195140293

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Working the Past by Charlotte Linde Pdf

Stories told within institutions play a powerful role, helping to define not only the institution itself, but also its individual members. How do institutions use stories? How do those stories both preserve the past and shape the future? To what extent does narrative construct both collective and individual identity? Charlotte Linde's unique and far-reaching study addresses these questions by looking at the interplay of narratives, memory, and identity in a large insurance company. Her detailed ethnography looks at the role of stories within the institution and how they are employed by its members in both private and group settings. Analyzing the re-telling of certain key stories, she shows how the formation of "core" stories and their multiple re-tellings and modifications provide a means of formulating and promoting a cohesive group identity - which in turn shapes the stories and identities of the individuals within the collective. Linde also looks at silences, and how stories not told also convey their version of the past. Working the Past shows how stories that might otherwise be seen as part of mundane daily life are in fact utterly essential to the formation and maintenance of individual and group identity. Her original research will appeal to those interested in narrative studies, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and institutional memory.

Author : Katharine Hodgkin,Susannah Radstone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134448241

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Contested Pasts by Katharine Hodgkin,Susannah Radstone Pdf

This inter-disciplinary volume demonstrates, from a range of perspectives, the complex cultural work and struggles over meaning that lie at the heart of what we call memory. In the last decade, a focus on memory in the human sciences has encouraged new approaches to the study of the past. As the humanities and social sciences have put into question their own claims to objectivity, authority and universality, memory has appeared to offer a way of engaging with knowledge of the past as inevitably partial, subjective and local. At the same time, memory and memorial practices have become sites of contestation, and the politics of memory are increasingly prominent.

Author : James Hegarty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136645884

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Religion, Narrative and Public Imagination in South Asia by James Hegarty Pdf

The Sanskrit Mahabharata is one of the greatest works of world literature and pivotal for the understanding of both Hindu traditions and wider society in ancient, medieval and modern South Asia. This book presents a new synthesis of philological, anthropological and cognitive-linguistic method and theory in relation to the study of narrative text by focusing on the form and function of the Mahabharata in the context of early South Asia. Arguing that the combination of structural and thematic features that have helped to establish the enduring cultural centrality of religious narrative in South Asia was first outlined in the text, the book highlights the Mahabharata’s complex orientation to the cosmic, social and textual past. The book shows the extent to which narrative is integral to human social life, and more generally the creation and maintenance of religious ideologies. It highlights the contexts of origin and transmission and the cultural function of the Mahabharata in first millennium South Asia and, by extension, in medieval and modern South Asiaby drawing on both textual and epigraphic sources. The book draws attention to what is culturally specific about the origination and transmission of early South Asian narrative and what can be used to enrich our orientation to narrative in human social life more globally.

Author : Ann Anagnost
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0822319691

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National Past-times by Ann Anagnost Pdf

Anthropologist Ann Anagnost explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the body of the nation. Using interviews and participant observation as well as close readings of official documents and propaganda materials, and popular media, Anagnost notes discontinuities in the nation's self-description--as though redefined at critical junctures in recent history. Photos.

Author : Andrew G. Stuckey
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781461633952

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Old Stories Retold by Andrew G. Stuckey Pdf

Old Stories Retold explores the ways modern Chinese narratives dramatize and embody the historical sense that links them to the past and to the Chinese literary tradition. Largely guided by Walter Benjamin’s discussions of history, G. Andrew Stuckey looks at the ways Chinese narrative engages a historical process that pieces together fragments of the past into new configurations to better serve present needs. By examining intertextual connections between separate texts, Stuckey seeks to discover traces of an “original,” whether it be thought of as the past, history, or tradition, when it has been rewritten in modern and contemporary Chinese fiction. Old Stories Retold shows how the articulation of the past into new historical configurations disrupts accepted understandings of the past, and as such, can be intentionally pitted against modernist historical knowledge to resist the modernist ends that this knowledge is mobilized to achieve.

Author : Birte Wege
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783593510217

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Drawing on the Past by Birte Wege Pdf

Author : A. Timothy Spaulding
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814210062

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Re-forming the Past by A. Timothy Spaulding Pdf

The slave experience was a defining one in American history, and not surprisingly, has been a significant and powerful trope in African American literature. In Re-Forming the Past, A. Timothy Spaulding examines contemporary revisions of slave narratives that use elements of the fantastic to redefine the historical and literary constructions of American slavery. In their rejection of mimetic representation and traditional historiography, postmodern slave narratives such as Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada, Octavia Butler's Kindred, Toni Morrison's Beloved, Charles Johnson's Ox Herding Tale and Middle Passage, Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories, and Samuel Delaney's Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand set out to counter the usual slave narrative's reliance on realism and objectivity by creating alternative histories based on subjective, fantastic, and non-realistic representations of slavery. As these texts critique traditional conceptions of history, identity, and aesthetic form, they simultaneously re-invest these concepts with a political agency that harkens back to the original project of the 19th-century slave narratives. In their rejection of mimetic representation and traditional historiography, Spaulding contextualizes postmodern slave narrative. By addressing both literary and popular African American texts, Re-Forming the Past expands discussions of both the African American literary tradition and postmodern culture.