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…
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This insight explores the literary scene in Soviet Armenia during the 1920s–1930s from the perspective of competition. It also examines the broader implications within Soviet literary policy, particularly how the 1934 All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers became a threshold between comparatively free and state-controlled literary and art processes. The article argues that the change in…
