Search Results for historical narrative

...Sunil Sharma Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 Amir Khusraw and the Genre of Historical Narratives in Verse1 Sunil Sharma One of the literary innovations credited to the Indo- court with Fakhr al-Din Gurgani, culminating in the works of Persian poet...

...Emine Ö. Evered Critical theory enables us to engage with historic power relations of colonizer and colonized, but the inclination to do so should not obfuscate the fact that many narratives that were once in opposition to the empires of the past are now the dominant—and often rewritten— narratives...

...Faisal Devji Abstract Torn between a futurist vision of Pakistan, on one hand, and the desire for a conventionally historical narrative about its founding on the other, Muslim nationalism has always faced its past in the form of impossibility. As Devji discusses in this afterword, the essays...

... interventionist policy in Salonika. By writing the rural dynamics into the historical narrative, Kokdas’s article thus provides a new understanding of the link between the town-country relationship and the sociopolitical transformation of provincial society in the early modern Ottoman world. © 2014 by Duke...

... the social dimensions through which an object, a form of clothing, can bear contested meanings and rouse debates that evoke unresolved problems related to immigration, secularism, and the reception of Islam in the West. The first section provides a historical narrative of the emergence of the headscarf...

.... Particular historical actors are valorized and emphasized, as they become protagonists of the national narrative. Often the outlines of the present-day state are anachronistically projected backward as part of attempts to construct a modern national identity. Lebanon's contested history offers a window...

...Kabir Tambar Abstract This essay examines “professions of friendship”: efforts by populations who are targeted as enemies of the state to proclaim their historical fidelity to the state's foundation and preservation. Such declarations often reinscribe a rigid and often violently statist narrative...

...   Turkish   music juncture in historical narratives created and Perhaps Atatürk’s most severe legislation supported by the individuals and the institu...

... on the public memories and nationalist narratives of sexual violence during the Bangladesh war of 1971 along with discussions with various Pakistani scholars and students, engagement with historical sources, government documents, textbooks, blog posts, press articles, and other secondary materials. By deploying...

...-Clancy Meghan . “Women and the Problem of Family in Early African Nationalist History and Historiography.” South African Historical Journal 64 , no. 3 ( 2012 ): 450 – 71 . Heuser Andreas . “Recovered Narratives of an Inter-Cultural Exchange: Gandhi, Shembe, and the Legacy...

... and destabilizes these narratives, which are seemingly derivative narratives of the Atlantic model of slavery. It also tries to debunk the binary narrative and the silencing of history, substantiating the discussion with a historical account of the emperor’s special army of captives, called c’äwa , in the longue...

... the col- rearticulation of Iranian American first-­person lective traumas of historical events such as war, narrative voice in the 1990s” as one in which revolution, and migration.8 “While mourning “the narrating American self exploits crises...

... to challenge the entrapments of contemporary violence but also to do so in a self-reflexively anti-redemptory fashion. They conceptualize narrative violence as a modality of cultural and literary analysis, practice and critique; understand violence as a historically situated phenomenon in constant need...

... inheritance, and the red splotch of violence its B. R. Ambedkar is illuminating. Both Du Bois birthmark” (564). and Ambedkar deploy historical narratives and The resonances between Du Bois’s and political concepts to demonstrate that a system Ambedkar’s theories of constitutionalism...

... bathing suit” (129 – 30). Giving a “massage” to a of narrative and historical crisis determined white, pregnant woman, he turns into a violent by the inability to find an immediate access to sexual machine. He “pressed against her back the truth of the traumatizing events. One may and just above her...

... as a signature revolutionary tactic. They attempted to reframe Ethiopian exceptionalist narratives as currency of US neo-imperialism, drawing on arguments strengthened by engaging Black Power concepts and thinkers. Demystification, while rooted in narrative modes and historical tropes specific to Ethiopian...

... clear that the Sikh “tradition” reflected rogate the narrative strategies of the authors to in their works was the product of more recent probe the ideological and cultural expressions historical events in Punjab. These texts reflect a of power, dominance, and resistance within the local...

... of Islam, and yet remain a measure apart because of historical and cultural differences. They constitute significant communities in the region whose histories have been elusive if not altogether suppressed. It is against these elusive narratives that I consider the recent accentuation of Arabness—through...

... nationalist staging of Kashmiris as the subversive other, and schisms within Kashmir's historical independence movement. By tracing how rumors of individual betrayal were laced onto narratives of political treason in the case, the essay reveals the counterinsurgency as the operative context of broken intimate...

... of the Ottoman Empire, and her home province of Sindh's location as a historical nexus between South Asia and the Middle East. In contrast to the expectations of modesty and de-emphasis on the self in many Muslim women's autobiographical narratives in the colonial era, Rizvia fashioned a pious, yet...