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Rescuing History from the Nation - Questioning Narratives of Modern China (Paperback, New edition)
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Rescuing History from the Nation - Questioning Narratives of Modern China (Paperback, New edition)
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Prasenjit Duara offers the first systematic account of the
relationship between the nation-state, nationalism, and the concept
of linear history. Focusing primarily on China and including
discussion of India, Duara argues that many historians of
postcolonial nation-states have adopted a linear, evolutionary
history of the Enlightenment/colonial model. As a result, they have
written repressive, exclusionary, and incomplete accounts.
The backlash against such histories has resulted in a tendency to
view the past as largely constructed, imagined, or invented. In
this book, Duara offers a way out of the impasse between
constructionism and the evolving nation; he redefines history as a
series of multiple, often conflicting narratives produced
simultaneously at national, local, and transnational levels. In a
series of closely linked case studies, he considers such examples
as the very different histories produced by Chinese nationalist
reformers and partisans of popular religions, the conflicting
narratives of statist nationalists and of advocates of federalism
in early twentieth-century China. He demonstrates the necessity of
incorporating contestation, appropriation, repression, and the
return of the repressed subject into any account of the past that
will be meaningful to the present. Duara demonstrates how to write
histories that resist being pressed into the service of the
national subject in its progress--or stalled progress--toward
modernity.
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