Josie Portz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 6422865 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Josie Portz |
| NOMBRES | Josie |
| APELLIDO | Portz |
| FIRMA | PORTZ J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-0599-0827 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 4 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Twentieth Century Historical Methods in Sri Lanka and S.G. Perera’s
Twentieth-century pre-independence Sri Lanka saw the emergence of a new generation of historians that embraced “modern” approaches to writing history. As in other regions of South Asia, these histories were often in service of projects of identity formation. One historian from this group, S.G. Perera, made significant contributions towards knowledge of the history of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka in particular, translating a significant amount…
Toward Translingual Revisions
This article addresses key issues in WAC/WID regarding translation and biliteracy.Informed by translingual scholarship, genre studies, and history of the English language research, it first defines translation politically and historically, and as always involving negotiations of meaning-making across linguistic repertoires and genres.It then reviews WAC/WID biliteracy scholarship to consider how colonially inflected translation ideologies might b…
Phantom Mobility
This article takes a pan-historiographic approach in its analysis of three collections of artifacts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Sri Lanka: a set of contact narratives compiled by both the colonizing Portuguese and the dominant people group of the island, the Sinhalese; correspondence between King Dharmapāla and Pope Gregory XIII; and correspondence between the Sinhalese poet Alagiyavanna Mukaveti and King Philip III. In bringing togethe…
Identity and Difference in Aelius Aristides’ “Regarding Sarapis”
This article posits that bringing diversity to histories of rhetoric may require not only revising canons but also “unwriting” the narratives of Western civilization in which canonical figures have been cast. Two conventions of these narratives are of special significance: fixed identities and narrative coherence. Focusing on the cultural contexts of Aelius Aristides’ “Regarding Sarapis,” we suggest that these conventions obscure the cultural dif…
Identity and Difference in Aelius Aristides’ “Regarding Sarapis”
This article posits that bringing diversity to histories of rhetoric may require not only revising canons but also “unwriting” the narratives of Western civilization in which canonical figures have been cast. Two conventions of these narratives are of special significance: fixed identities and narrative coherence. Focusing on the cultural contexts of Aelius Aristides’ “Regarding Sarapis,” we suggest that these conventions obscure the cultural dif…
Identity and Difference in Aelius Aristides’ “Regarding Sarapis”
This article posits that bringing diversity to histories of rhetoric may require not only revising canons but also “unwriting” the narratives of Western civilization in which canonical figures have been cast. Two conventions of these narratives are of special significance: fixed identities and narrative coherence. Focusing on the cultural contexts of Aelius Aristides’ “Regarding Sarapis,” we suggest that these conventions obscure the cultural dif…
Phantom Mobility
This article takes a pan-historiographic approach in its analysis of three collections of artifacts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Sri Lanka: a set of contact narratives compiled by both the colonizing Portuguese and the dominant people group of the island, the Sinhalese; correspondence between King Dharmapāla and Pope Gregory XIII; and correspondence between the Sinhalese poet Alagiyavanna Mukaveti and King Philip III. In bringing togethe…
Twentieth Century Historical Methods in Sri Lanka and S.G. Perera’s
Twentieth-century pre-independence Sri Lanka saw the emergence of a new generation of historians that embraced “modern” approaches to writing history. As in other regions of South Asia, these histories were often in service of projects of identity formation. One historian from this group, S.G. Perera, made significant contributions towards knowledge of the history of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka in particular, translating a significant amount…
Toward Translingual Revisions
This article addresses key issues in WAC/WID regarding translation and biliteracy.Informed by translingual scholarship, genre studies, and history of the English language research, it first defines translation politically and historically, and as always involving negotiations of meaning-making across linguistic repertoires and genres.It then reviews WAC/WID biliteracy scholarship to consider how colonially inflected translation ideologies might b…
Archaeology (2 obras) · Art (2 obras) · Colonialism (2 obras) · Diversity (politics (2 obras) · History (2 obras) · Linguistics (2 obras) · Literature (2 obras) · Narrative (2 obras) · Philosophy (2 obras) · Portuguese (2 obras)