After the Last Post

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-19-286786-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 400 g

This book is about the production and consumption of specifically Indian history, framed by concerns with postmodernism and postcolonialism. Several parallel themes crosscut the book's central focus on the discipline of history: its intellectual history, its historiography, and its connection to memory, particularly in relation to the need to establish the collective identity of 'nation', 'community', or state, through a memorialization process that has much to do with history, or at least with claiming a historicity for collective memory. None of this can be undertaken without an understanding of the roles that history-writing and history-reading have played in public debates, or perhaps more accurately in public disputes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zachariah, Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface to the South Asia Edition

- Preface: Reflections on Reflexivity

- Acknowledgements

- Introduction: The Instrumentalization of Historiography and the Production of Victimhood

- PART I: MARKING THE POSTS

- 1: Identifying the Beast Within: Postcolonial Theory and History

- 2: Manifesto on Indirections: Histories, Collective Victimhood, and Postcolonialism

- PART II: INSTRUMENTALIZATIONS

- 3: The Revolt of Memory: 1857 in the Nationalist Imagination

- 4: Histories of Empire, Imperial Legitimation, and the Wartime Career of Penderel Moon

- 5: History, Cinema, and the Politics of Cultural Sensitivity in Interwar India

- PART III: POSTDISCURSIVE POSSIBILITIES

- 6: Moving Ideas and How to Catch Them

- 7: Travellers in Archives, or the Possibilities of a Post-PostArchival Historiography

- Afterword: Is There a Discipline to This?

Über Autor(innen)

Benjamin Zachariah read history at Presidency College, Calcutta, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. His published work includes a biography of Nehru (2004), 'Developing India' (2005/2012), 'Nation Games' (2011/2016/2020), and the co-edited volumes 'The Internationalist Moment' (2015) and 'What's Left of Marxism' (2020/2022). He was Reader at the University of Sheffield before moving to Germany where, among other posts, he was Senior Research Fellow at the University of Heidelberg, and at the University of Trier. His research interests centre on historiography and historical thinking in public forums, intellectual histories of the twentieth century, international revolutionary networks, and global fascism.