Articulations
Peer-reviewed articles on “Temporal Communities”
Recently published
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…
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…
Spotlight
Theories of narrative framing often resort to the ‘Arabian Nights’ as a prime example of how frame tales and embedded tales interact. This contribution aims to move beyond the classical understanding of narrative framing by exploring a contemporary Tunisian example. In his novel ‘Mayār: sarāb al-jamājim thumma māʾ’ [Mayār: The Mirage of Skulls, then Water]…
