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COLONIAL MODERNITY (4) answer(s).
 
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Cosmopolitan Moment in Colonial Modernity: the Bahá’í faith, spiritual networks, and universalist movements in early twentieth-century China / Wan, Zhaoyuan; Palmer, David A   Journal Article
Palmer, David A Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This article outlines the spread of the Bahá’í religion—known in Chinese as Datong jiao 大同教)— as a form of religious cosmopolitanism in Republican China (1912–1949). Originating in Iran, its spread to China can be traced to links with the Ottoman empire, British Palestine, the United States, and Japan. By tracking the individuals, connections, and events through which knowledge of the Bahá’í movement spread in China, our study reveals an overlapping nexus of networks—intellectual reformers, liberal Christians, Esperantists, Confucian modernizers, redemptive society activists, and socialists—that shared cosmopolitan ideals. The Bahá’í connections thus serve as a thread that reveals the influence of a unique ‘cosmopolitan moment’ in Republican China, hitherto largely ignored in the scholarly literature on this period, which has focused primarily on the growth of modern Chinese nationalism. Leading nationalist figures endorsed these movements at a specific juncture of Asian colonial modernity, showing that nationalism and cosmopolitanism were seen as expressions of the same ideal of a world community. We argue that the sociology of cosmopolitanism should attend to non-secular and non-state movements that advocated utopian visions of cosmopolitanism, map the circulations that form the nexus of such groups, and identify the contextual dynamics that produce ‘cosmopolitan moments’ at specific historical junctures and locations.
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ID:   155311


Happiness unattained: colonial modernity under japanese imperialism in writings by ōsako rinko and yang qianhe / Kakihara, Satoko   Journal Article
Kakihara, Satoko Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract Much scholarship on gender ideologies under Japanese imperialism remains demarcated by temporal and spatial lines. This article instead conceives the Japanese empire as a continuum, examining writings by women who published in and outside of East Asia, during the imperialist period and after decolonization. Specifically, it examines the femininities constructed in works by Japanese writer Ōsako Rinko (1915–2003) and Taiwanese writer Yang Qianhe (1921–2011), whose lives traversed geopolitical borders and ideological shifts from imperial modernization through decolonization. Showing how colonial modernity influenced gender constructions in different ways depending on the writers’ positionalities, this article illustrates how the writers negotiated happiness and spaces of belonging (whether geospatial locations in which to situate themselves, or daily practices and roles to perform) through their works. Furthermore, the article argues that freedom and happiness described by the two were consistently unattainable and postponed to a geopolitical temporality of dominance – the Japanese metropole, the United States, the imaginary West. The article thus examines gender and power among East Asian nations and the United States throughout the twentieth century.
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ID:   188235


Palestinian Modernism: Meaning Making and Alternative Historical Practices in Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail / Aamir, Fatima   Journal Article
Aamir, Fatima Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This article explores both the collapse of Palestinian futurity and practices of alternative meaning making in Adania Shibli’s novel Minor Detail. Through her unique negotiation with Palestinian literary modernism, including her defamiliarizing engagement of realist aesthetics within the text, as well as the defining role she assigns Israeli settler colonialism in producing modernist alienation, Shibli troubles historical truth and avoids the close-ended museumification of events. Despite the collapse of Palestinian futurity within the text, Shibli’s literary experimentation creates gaps not only in the totalizing nature of Israeli occupation, but also in its historical hegemony, reflecting the practice of what Ariella Azoulay terms “potential history.” While Shibli’s stuttering and irrational Palestinian narrator, as well as the ambiguous nature of her narrative form, might not reflect straightforward resistance to settler-colonial totality, they unsettle historical narrative from within and open up new ways to consider truth and meaning.
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ID:   162463


Pluralising the Narrative: Reconfiguring ‘Vernacular Modernism’ in Assamese Literary Culture / Borah, Abikal   Journal Article
Borah, Abikal Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract The term ‘vernacular modernism’ came into being amidst proliferating conceptual frameworks to explain the diverse paradigms of modernity as a global process. More specifically, ‘vernacular modernism’ as a category of analysis emerged in an effort to democratise the term ‘modern’ with respect to non-metropolitan cultural formations. However, this conceptual category does not necessarily encompass the complex elements of all non-metropolitan vernacular cultural formations; rather, it offers a complementary gesture towards a universal history of modernity. Historicising a debate on modernism in Assamese literary culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this paper grapples with the problematic that ‘vernacular modernism’ as a conceptual category represents.
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