Mission Interrupted
Gender, History and the Colonial Canon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20072449 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Legêne (0000-0002-2826-9541, Erasmus University Rotterdam), Berteke Waaldijk (Utrecht University) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Pages | 188-204 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Beyond the Canon (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230599246_13 |
| OpenAlex | W2476522299 |
| ISBN | 9780230599246 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
Current debates on the canonization of historical knowledge often focus on national canons. These are criticized for their exclusively national focus and their exclusion of ‘deviant’ or dissenting memories and experiences. The histories of women and migrants, for example, have often been absent from national canons. Women’s lives were regarded as private and domestic experiences, and therefore irrelevant to a national canon defined by state formation and nation-building. In a similar perspective, the transnational experiences of migrants were depicted as a problem for the nation rather than an integral part of its history. Since canonized historical knowledge is taught in schools and, in a popularized form, is often seen as a requirement for active citizenship in contemporary post-colonial societies, the call for alternative forms of canonized knowledge is timely
Aesthetics · Art · Canon · Citizenship · Colonialism · Dissenting opinion · Focus (optics) · National history · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |