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
In the Afro-Eurasian core, from Egypt to China, writing emerged, developed, and then was transferred to the periphery, for instance, to the German-speaking world and to Japan. This process loosely synchronised the politics and literature of these two cultures, thereby explaining the striking similarity between song anthologies compiled in both regions, at a time when…
