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 this response, Longinotti explores the impact of circulation on Petrarch’s oeuvre and the transformation of World Literature. Petrarch’s Latin epic, ‘Africa’, played a fundamental role in his reputation as the first poet laureate despite its limited readership during his lifetime. Longinotti investigates the reception of ‘Africa’ in Florence and Padua after Petrarch’s death, examining…
