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Philippa Langley
revealingrichardiii.comvoid as these tombs are of identifiable mortal remains or immortal souls, they are nonetheless saturated with ghostly national imaginings.2 (This is why so many different nations have such tombs without feeling any need to specify the nationality of their absent occupants. What else could they be but Germans, Americans, Argentinians . . .?) The cul
... See moreBenedict Anderson • Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
cosmological values dominating time urged a return to the truths of a golden age or subordinated them to transcendent goals, there also existed other conceptions of time and history or histories in a minor key.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Like earlier generations of hula dancers who toured the continental United States during the colonization of the islands, performers inserted their own counter-colonial performances, desires, and tactics into militouristic scripts. They reappropriated militarized time and land according to their own interests.113 Their participation in wartime ente
... See moreAdria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
The world looked to us—and now I speak as an American—to uphold a holy image, or as holy as it gets in this age of enlightenment. We have been the earthly garden, the abundant idyll, the productive Arcadia of the world’s pastoral dream. Between our shores has gleamed a realm of refuge and renewal—in short, the only reliable escape from history itse
... See moreAyad Akhtar • Homeland Elegies: A Barack Obama Favourite Book 2020
Strengthening approaches to respond to the social and emotional well-being needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: the Cultural Pathways Program | Primary Health Care Research & Development |...
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Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War
Entire cultures and populations recovering from this plague have been left like orphan children with no memories of who they are, longing for a pattern they know is there but can’t see.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
The problem with White’s understanding lies in his conception of narrative structures, which draws heavily and fatally, I believe, on structuralism. Thus, White wants to show that history and myth have important common elements in utilizing imaginative resources in their ‘configuration’, as it were, but both are also limited by the structural form
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