Oceanic Historicities

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5800207
AutoresC Ballard (0000-0002-8455-6908, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen26
Número1
Páginas96-124
Fecha de publicación2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Contemporary Pacific/ The contemporary Pacific (Online (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1043-898X • E-ISSN: 1527-9464
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/cp.2014.0009
OpenAlexW4250931688
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas44

We need a word that includes memory but embraces all the other ways of knowing a past," wrote Greg Dening, in advocating the notion of a "poetic for histories": culturally specific forms of knowledge of the past that embrace "reminiscence, gossip, anecdote, rumour, parable, report, tradition, myth ... saga, legend, epic, ballad, folklore, annal, chronicle" (1991, 348-349). To this list we might want to add a range of other performative and sensory modes of engaging-consciously or unconsciously-with the past, including dancing, gardening, carving, smell, sound, and touch. Drawing on a large but diffuse body of global literature, and illustrating my argument with material from local historians, I consider how we might set about describing these historicities, or cultural logics of temporal process, in an Oceanic setting: how are they expressed, how might we come to understand them, and how are they transformed over time and through encounter with other historicities

Anecdote · Ballad · Legend · Lyrics · Orality · Performative utterance · Yesterday · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Travel Writing and Literature