... underscores the tentative nature of European power. This article challenges critics' notions of mimesis and demonstrates the limits of imperial knowledge by reasserting the agency of those Burton encountered. Duke University Press 2011 Trafficking in Persianness: Richard Burton between Mimicry...

... of mimesis as advanced by Michael Taussig and Matthias Krings, Vierke shows that the Swahili poet makes an effort to imitate the original by re-evoking its sceneries as well as its tone in palpable Swahili imagery and meter. The connection over the Indian Ocean is hence not merely discursive...

... both the person and society are aesthetically constituted, a way that is at once reflexive and imaginative, bodily and material. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Swahili coast Indian Ocean aesthetics mimesis translocality practice theory space consumption performance...

...         expanding consciousness based on experience As such, on another somewhat more spe- 214 leads to knowledge that must be kept increas- cific—and tangible—level, mimesis provides a ingly secret as it approaches the truth. Yoga, in means by which to engage with a history...

...Sheldon Pollock References Allen Roger Richards D. S. Arabic Literature in the Post-Classical Period . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2006 . Auerbach Erich . Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature . Princeton, NJ : Princeton...

... the impact of the circulation of aesthetic forms on the Swahili coast, as well as the sensory and material experiences that result from diffusion and mimesis. Clarissa Vierke’s article Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 183 Vol. 37, No. 2, 2017...

... the interests of ethnomusicology, linguis- tween aesthetic practices elsewhere and their local- tic anthropology, sound studies, and historical mu- ized versions. In mediating the two, the concept of sicology, examines Indian taarab music in the Swa- mimesis features prominently within all contribu- hili...

..., the Armenian Massacres, and Orientalism in Wilhelmine Germany .” Journal of Modern History 79 ( 2007 ): 80 – 111 . Auerbach Erich . Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 1953 . Barthes Roland . “ Pierre Loti...

... book: the African romantic primi- emerges as a space where a multimodal process is tivism that eventually becomes crystallized in the underway . . . incorporat[ing] textual decoding Négritude movement. Launay has written about this and encoding, memorization and mimesis, under- here...

... . ———. “ Between Mimesis and Alterity: Art, Gift, and Diplomacy in Colonial India, 1770-1800 .” Comparative Studies in Society and History 46 , no. 4 ( 2004 ): 816 – 44 . ———. “ Nostalgia for the Exotic: Creating an Imperial Art in London, 1750-1793 .” Eighteenth-Century Studies 39 , no. 2 ( 2006...

...,” as many orientation toward mimesis, necessarily confronts scholars maintain, then perhaps its musical ele- an other’s singing voice as a reflection and refraction ments are heard as merely incidental.7 But a skilled of the self.10 When exploited for expressive purposes, Indian taarab singer...

... Practice is crucial since in its attempt to transform the normative bourgeois subject, there is not merely theory, but analysis. Analysis is an attunement that is only possible, Katherine Ewing has shown, within an attitude of play. 27 Analysis is a “form of play, a trial run, or an illusory mimesis...

.... Classical Hindi text from Poddar, Sriramacaritamanasa , 90 . 39. See Allahabad MS, above. 40. Walsh, A History of Murshidabad , 237 . Gangoly saw the manuscript while it was in the possession of the Nahar family. 41. Eaton, “Between Mimesis and Alterity.” 42. British...

... whereby the city must hold water within its solid though either; and certainly the partition of India had helped vastly imperilled space. The short, recessional line is a nothing. Landlord-tenant relations are seen as a mimesis of the shrinking possibility, and of the definite microcosmic...

... to be the preserve of the TTB (acro- theory, in terms of both representation and reflec- nym for “top of the twice-­born Dalits’ too-­ready tion, mimesis and analysis, recognition as well as embrace of this arrangement could trap them into cognition. As well, in denying literature...

... of the wave of puritanical Wahhabi textual decoding and encoding, memorization Salafism that has been sweeping West African Sufi and mimesis, understanding the location of texts societies. as well the responsibility of community service, all...

... marketplace. The third catalyst in the take it up and it becomes a shared background. erosion of authority is access to the Internet. The essence of modern fashion is the tension This empowered individuals to have not only between mimesis...

... on Kalhan.a’s poets, and poets kings, kavirāja (for example, concept of historical mimesis — the “whole story” Jun. āgad.h Rock Inscription of Rudradāman; Allahabad as a narrative distillation of historical experience Pillar Inscription of Samudragupta...

... BookReviews connection” is “minimal” and mimesis is “of a very primitive nature” as a vehicle for her “more horizontal, secular reading practice,” although she ultimately concedes that this new practice will con- tinue to be “spliced” with “the kinds of symptomatic The Challenge of Political Islam...

... BookReviews connection” is “minimal” and mimesis is “of a very primitive nature” as a vehicle for her “more horizontal, secular reading practice,” although she ultimately concedes that this new practice will con- tinue to be “spliced” with “the kinds of symptomatic The Challenge of Political Islam...