Fashioning the National Subject

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Subject

scholarly journals A national subject profile for materials: Views of graduates and materials teaching staff

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 2-10
Author(s):  
Tim Bullough ◽  
Peter Goodhew ◽  
Diane Taktak ◽  
Adam Mannis
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Staff ◽  
National Subject

Transitional Justice and Reconciliation through Identification

Andean Truths ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 60-87
Author(s):  
Anne Lambright
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Horizontal Position ◽  
Indigenous Culture ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Future ◽  
National Subject ◽  
Ethical Stance

This section examines Claudia Llosa’s 2009 film La teta asustada in contrast with Paloma de papel (2003, Fabrizio Aguilar). While the latter promotes traditional, paternalistic, and objectifying images of rural indigenous culture, Llosa’s film, which focuses on indigenous immigrants in Lima, assumes a horizontal position with respect to indigenous communities. With over 40% of its dialogue in Quechua, La teta asustada, both through its circumstances of production and its treatment of its subject matter, is unique in that re-locates national culture and redefines the national subject, suggesting that the future of Peru lies greatly in an urban indigenous culture sustained by an inevitable heterogeneity of knowledges and practices. Furthermore, the film demands a new ethical stance on the part of the larger audience, obliging the public to take a position less of a far-away empathizer and more of solidarity.

scholarly journals Re-reading History: Alternative Truth in Jerusalem & I by Hala Sakakini

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Nehal El-Naggar
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
General Flow ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Subject ◽  
Reading History

Jerusalem & I (1990) by Hala Sakakini (1924-2003) is a personal record of her life as experienced and lived in Jerusalem. This study focuses on Sakakini’s re-reading of the history of Jerusalem prior to 1948 through her personal remembrances and recollections that she uses as a strategy for resistance. Hala Sakakini is a representation of a woman as a national subject developing a nationalist consciousness within the general flow of nationalism. This study attempts to explore the “alternative truth” rendered by Sakakini in her text. This “alternative truth” dismantles mainstream history written by the powerful. Palestinian women’s self-narratives disentangle a number of correlated topics that convey an exploratory outline for approaching the topic of this study. Sakakini’s writing in English was to carve a place for the experience of a female Jerusalemite voice. Her narrative is a lens through which reality is seen. What Sakakini is delivering to her readers is different from political traditional history; she is after the story of ordinary people. It is a form of oral history where she ponders to offer a socio-historical analysis and an ethnographic and geographic map of the land and the people, conveying another version of history, which subverts mainstream narrative. Hala Sakakini’s quest is a quest for a lost place not a personal gendered quest; it is a collective discourse of belonging. 

Nimā Yušij and the Constitution of a National Subject

2003 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-129
Author(s):  
Hamid Dabashi ◽  
Golriz Dahdel
Keyword(s):  
National Subject

Gendering the Nation: The Proliferation of Images of Zhen Fei (1876-1900) and Sai Jinhua (1872-1936) in Late Qing and Republican China

NAN Nü ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-64
Author(s):  
Shengqing Wu
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
Republican China ◽  
Late Qing ◽  
National Subject ◽  
Erotic Desire

AbstractThis paper analyzes the historical trajectories of the images of Zhen Fei and Sai Jinhua, who rose from an obscure royal concubine and an infamous prostitute, respectively, to become androgynous national heroines in wartime China. The study exposes the construction and the fictional elements of these images, thus providing concrete examples for establishing the interconnection between male fantasy and the invention of the modern national subject. It argues that the female body became the contested site for predominantly male-led discourses on eroticism and politics, and emphasizes that erotic desire may inform or enhance expressions and experiences of the formation of modern nationhood.

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