Genres of Memory and the Memory of Genres
Forgetting' Lament in Bangladesh
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2108161 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Wilce, James M Wilce (0000-0001-6363-4092, Northern Arizona University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 159-185 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417502000075 |
| OpenAlex | W2055278989 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 20 |
This article seeks to place lament in the context of Asian modernities, theorize memory in relation to genres of performance, and introduce the notion of social technologies of forgetting. Evidence suggests that Bangladeshi culture is changing in ways congruent with some models of globalizing modernity. Indeed, my data indicate that displacing certain performance genres may be key to modernist transformation. Yet, several persons I describe here endured hardship over several years to continue performing genres their neighbors deemed dated or sacrilegious. This problematizes teleological visions of the progress of a monolithic modernity stamping out older expressive forms
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2012 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |