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Narrative Beginnings/Beginning Narratives: Co-constitution of Christianity and Caste in Kerala

Through a creative critical reading of the translations of a ninth-century Copper Plate Deed and other narratives from precolonial South India, this essay attempts to deconstruct the colonial-nationalist historiographic project that imagined linear, progressive and homogenous histories for communities with heterogenous roots/routes. I examine selected narratives of Suriyani Christian identity formation in “Kerala” during the…

Digital Narrative Communities: Storytelling in an Age of Narrative Crisis

This Case Study examines how “digital narrative communities” emerge as collective spaces of storytelling in response to what Byung-Chul Han describes as the contemporary crisis of narration. In an era shaped by neoliberal subjectivity, platform capitalism, and the rapid circulation of informational fragments, narrative coherence is increasingly strained as personal experiences are transformed into content…

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‘By Far the Best Fiction in any Language’: An Analysis of the Circulation and Critical Reception of Carl Franz van der Velde’s Historical Novels in the Nineteenth Century

This text shows how the circulation of German-language historical novels connected readers from different parts of the world during the nineteenth century. This is achieved through a case study based on the circulation of the works of Carl Franz van der Velde (1779–1824), an author who wrote historical novels in German. Public library catalogues, newspaper…

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