Benjamin Zachariah

After the Last Post (eBook, PDF)

The Lives of Indian Historiography

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is about the production and consumption of history, themes that have gained in importance since the discipline's attempts to disavow its own authority with the ascendancy of postmodern and postcolonial perspectives. Several parallel themes crosscut the book's central focus on the discipline of history: its intellectual history, its historiography, and its connection to memory, particularly in relation to the need to establish the collective identity of 'nation', 'community' or state through a memorialisation process that has much to do with history, or at least with claiming a historicity for collective memory. None of this can be undertaken without an understanding of the roles that history-writing and history-reading have been made to perform in public debates, or perhaps more accurately in public disputes. The book addresses a discomfort with postcolonial theories in and as history. Following are essays that examine the state of the discipline, the art of reading and using archives, practices of tracking the history of ideas, and the themes of history, memory and identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783110643404
• Artikelnr.: 58433301

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Zachariah, University of Trier

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface to the South Asia Edition
* Preface: Reflections on Reflexivity
* Acknowledgements
* Introduction: The Instrumentalization of Historiography and the
Production of Victimhood
* PART I: MARKING THE POSTS
* 1: Identifying the Beast Within: Postcolonial Theory and History
* 2: Manifesto on Indirections: Histories, Collective Victimhood, and
Postcolonialism
* PART II: INSTRUMENTALIZATIONS
* 3: The Revolt of Memory: 1857 in the Nationalist Imagination
* 4: Histories of Empire, Imperial Legitimation, and the Wartime Career
of Penderel Moon
* 5: History, Cinema, and the Politics of Cultural Sensitivity in
Interwar India
* PART III: POSTDISCURSIVE POSSIBILITIES
* 6: Moving Ideas and How to Catch Them
* 7: Travellers in Archives, or the Possibilities of a
Post-PostArchival Historiography
* Afterword: Is There a Discipline to This?