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History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History Volume 11 Issue 2

Subject Areas: History
ISSN: 2159-9785
SJR: 2

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Depth and DeathOn History, Humanitarianism, and Mortuary Culture

Trüper, Henning

2021 History of the Present

doi:10.1215/21599785-9015270

This article proposes a re-reading of what inclusion into the sphere of the historical actually means in modern European historical discourse. It argues that this re-reading permits challenging a powerful but problematic norm of ontological homogeneity as something to be achieved in and by...
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Subramania Bharati and the Rhetoric of Enthusiasm

Rajan, Rajeswari Sunder

2021 History of the Present

doi:10.1215/21599785-9015279

This article identifies the rhetoric and sentiment of enthusiasm as a certain specifically Tamil historical-aesthetic-political conjuncture that operates in both an affective register and as a structure of publicity. The “people,” who emerge as a subject of politics within the crucible of the...
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Theorizing PalimpsestsUnfolding Pasts into the Present

Iğsız, Aslı

2021 History of the Present

doi:10.1215/21599785-9015288

How do we connect the past with the present to address structural problems? While the pursuit of a cause-and-effect past flowing into the present contributes to the understanding of an event or object, how that past is recalled, represented, related, disconnected, suppressed, and/or obfuscated in...
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Adjacent HistoriesReading Riley’s “Am I That Name?” against Contemporary Debates in Feminism

Armstrong-Price, Amanda; Napolin, Julie Beth

2021 History of the Present

doi:10.1215/21599785-9015297

In this conversation, composed through written correspondence, Julie Beth Napolin and Amanda Armstrong-Price discuss aspects of Denise Riley’s “Am I That Name?” in light of contemporary feminist debates, including debates within black feminism and transfeminism. The authors begin by considering...
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Interrupting “The Sadist’s Gaze”The Poetics of Denise Riley’s Feminist Thought

Sanos, Sandrine

2021 History of the Present

doi:10.1215/21599785-9015306

This article proposes that returning Denise Riley’s work on (and troubling of) the category of “women” offers a feminist theorizing and politics that remains both critical and relevant to the political present. It argues that reading Riley again, alongside other anti-essentialist feminist...
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On ImpossibilityRiley, Spivak, and Critique

Olla, Nasrin

2021 History of the Present

doi:10.1215/21599785-9015315

Should critical traditions value transparency, surface effects, and a realist attitude? Does the frame of realism help us recognize, narrate, and understand histories marked by erasure? This article analyzes Denise Riley’s 1988 book “Am I That Name?” alongside Gayatri Spivak’s essay of the same...
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Islam Out of HistoryThree Genealogies

Idris, Murad

2021 History of the Present

doi:10.1215/21599785-9015324

The definition of Islam as submission, the claim that Islam needs a Luther, and the desire to identify jihād with private and spiritual struggle, all reflect a series of compulsions and elisions. The three idioms are fundamental to how Islam has been constituted in language as a subject and as a...

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