Wild Races: Scripturalizing Empire in British India - Couverture rigide

Lalruatkima

 
9781978716445: Wild Races: Scripturalizing Empire in British India
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1978716443 ISBN 13 : 9781978716445
Editeur : Fortress Academic, 2024

Synopsis

This book analyzes the narrative dynamics of social formations in British India, using statistical and ethnographic records, visual cultures, and linguistic exercises to describe the British Empire's production of knowledge about so-called "strange new worlds." Lalruatkima then labels these narrative dynamics as "scripturalizing" to account for the creation, or writing, of these worlds into existence. This focus underscores empire as one of many such formations imagined against the backdrop of contested conversations about what it is and what it could be. When reverse engineered, empire throws into sharp relief its constituent narrative placeholders, and the sequences of meaning-making that connect them. Power differentials between the imperial center and frontier determine the placeholders and how they fit into the larger narrative. These discursive components in turn engender the politically charged attitudes and relations within the imperial domain. Lalruatkima excavates the imperial archive for material that accounts for these narrative dynamics.

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À propos de l?auteur

Lalruatkima teaches religion at the Academy of Integrated Christian Studies (AICS) in Aizawl, India.

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Éditeur
Fortress Academic
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1978716443
ISBN 13 
9781978716445
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
220
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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