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.... [email protected] Copyright ©2023 by Duke University Press 2023 historiography leprosy identification white supremacy White supremacists tend to fetishize the European Middle Ages: recent examples include Celtic crosses at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville and the crusader...

... as information and analyses from blogs. It follows rather classical sociohistorical criteria for evaluating the occurrence of revolutions, symbolized by the various more or less violent clashes between the involved conflicting forces, and, in accordance with the fundamentals of historiography and maintaining...

...McKenzie Wark Eric Hobsbawm's historiography is rooted in his biography, which begins with the struggle against fascism in Vienna and Berlin, which he experienced in his youth. He remained loyal to a popular front view of historical action throughout his life and career. His books divide into two...

...Barry M. Katz Abstract An intellectual iconoclast, Norman O. Brown was one of the most imaginative contributors to post–World War II cultural theory. His books, grounded in deep classical erudition, include Hermes the Thief (1947), a pioneering attempt to apply Marxist historiography...

... counterpart in its desire to move beyond the legacies of the Enlightenment. David Scott initiated this critique by arguing that seemingly endless debates between contesting versions of national historiography demonstrate the limits of using the past to find justice in the present. Qadri Ismail builds...

.../ Zhongguo . Their reasoning reveals the modern origins of historical claims that nationalist and Orientalist historiography has endowed with timeless longevity. References Allsen Thomas T. 1997 . “ Ever Closer Encounters: The Appropriation of Culture and the Apportionment of Peoples during...

... for their role in Spain’s economic crisis and why collective attempts at holding them accountable have been limited. Through a comparative analysis, the essay traces the meanings and permutations of the acousmatic and constituent voice through four very different examples from historiography (Santos Juliá), film...

... history and historiography.” © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 On the Archive III: The Secret; or, Borges at Yale Marc Nichanian Translated from French by Gil Anidjar...

... but have remained under the radar of elite national cultures. They have also stayed in fairly isolated disciplinary brackets and thus badly need postcolonial studies’ sophisticated theorizing of ideology and identity and its commitment to historiography. At the end, I outline three sample possibilities...

...Arif Dirlik Duke University Press 2001 Postmodernism and Chinese History Arif Dirlik This essay considers questions raised by postmodernism with spe- cific reference to issues in the historiography of China. If I spend...

... refers to as what he calls the historiography of race war articulated in the English chroniclers’ account of the fact and continuity of Anglo-Saxon law before and after the Norman Conquest, but most elaborately formulated in the work of Henri de Boulainvilliers. This work, Foucault effectively argues...

...- ciplinary issue, a technical matter of historiography, properly divorced from broader political and cultural settings.1 The historians’ approach misses the point, as the challenges to this dominant revisionism have come from out- side the orthodoxy of disciplinary history. In this respect, the Irish...

.... References Amae Yoshihisa . 2011 . “ Pro-colonial or Postcolonial? Appropriation of Japanese Colonial Heritage in Present-Day Taiwan .” Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 40 , no. 1 : 19 – 62 . Chang Lung-chih . 2014 . “ Island of Memories: Postcolonial Historiography and Public...

... of American Civilization (1927) was still a sensation both inside and outside the academy, in part because it reani- mated the central principles of “Progressive” historiography. By the time he left Buffalo, however, Hofstadter had begun to complicate his identification with the Left, and had realized...

... “This Amphibious City: Venice and the Digressive Inven- tion of the Modern,” which explores post-Romantic Venice’s paradoxical status as a crucible for experimental aesthetics; the article in this issue derives from an evolving manuscript on ambient historiography. She is an assistant professor of English...

... of Kiev’ in Akira Kurosawa's No Regrets for Our Youth ” (chap. 11), Solovieva quotes Yukie, the protagonist in the Kurosawa film, who exclaims, “The world doesn't run solely on logic” (346). These statements capture the key issues in the editors’ effort to challenge the historiography of modern Japan...

...,” and “British” epochs. 19 The rise of Marxist-inflected social history in the late 1950s and 1960s intensified interest in “Indian feudalism” as a means of analyzing and comparing modes of production (8–9). Ali tracks the gradual obsolescence of “the medieval” in south Asian historiography, but the specter...

.... There is a dizzy referential circularity here. But that is made even more complicated by the fact that Juch’e is also a historiography of sorts, 19. Il-Chul­ Shin, 북한 연구 (An Inquiry into North Korea’s Juch’e) (Seoul: Nanam, 1993), 15. 20. See Dimitris Vardoulakis, Sovereignty and Its Other: Toward...

... States is an extraordinary work of cultural memory and an important con- tribution to critical historiography. In writing it, Ali Behdad establishes an unacknowledged connection between representations of America as an “Immigrant Nation” and the negation of the history of the violence...

... and Historiography in Modern Korea. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. English, Daylanne K. Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African American Lit- erature. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. Franco, Jean. Cruel Modernity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. Fuss, Diana. Dying...