Wild Races
Scripturalizing Empire in British India
Seiten
2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-9787-1644-5 (ISBN)
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-9787-1644-5 (ISBN)
This book explores the narrative networks that underlie the empirical dimensions of the worlds we imagine and inhabit. Scripturalizing the empire locates this exploration within an ascendant social formation in the nineteenth century—British India
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.
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.
Lalruatkima teaches religion at the Academy of Integrated Christian Studies (AICS) in Aizawl, India.
Introduction
1. Textures and Tensions of Imperial Imaginations
2. Civilizing the Wild Races
3. Framing Wildness
4. Translations and Translingual Exchanges
Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.01.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Scripturalization: Discourse, Formation, Power |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 158 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 476 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-9787-1644-3 / 1978716443 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-9787-1644-5 / 9781978716445 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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