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
This response explores the intermedial circulation of literary characters, examining how they gain cultural mobility through fragmentation, recontextualisation, and shifts in meaning. These characters appear across various media and contexts, often reduced to iconic traits (Pinocchio’s nose, Faust’s name) but retaining rich significance. They transcend their original narratives, becoming symbols in feminist discourse or commodity…
