Narratives of Hegemony and Marginalization: Deconstructing the History Legends of India
| Autor: | Sabina ZACHARIAS |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Cultural Intertexts, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 157-171 (2022) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2393-0624 2393-1078 |
| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.7431902 |
| Popis: | Myths and legends as local sources of history reveal their implicit assumptions and demonstrate the way in which events are filtered through the interpretations of their authors. By examining a variety of these interpretations, we might piece together a refracted image of the past which will ultimately present a history of “what actually happened”. There is also an attempt to create a single narrative supported by various sources that claim to reveal the truth in political and social terms about what may have happened there. I have substantiated my arguments by drawing examples from the compilation of legends, Aithihyamala (Garland of Legends), a pioneering and exhaustive collection of 126 legends of Kerala (India), compiled and published between 1909 and 1934 by the Sanskrit-Malayalam scholar Kottarathil Sankunni. My contention in this paper is that there is a politics behind the subversion of “other histories” (local or subaltern) to establish a hegemonic history. One finds a "politics" behind the legend-making, a deliberate attempt at compiling an elitist record of legends and through it the homogenizing of the cultural past of a region. |
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