Writing, Memory and Subalternity in the Early Modern World

Bibliographic Data

ID6154247
AuthorsAntonio Castillo Gómez (0000-0002-7113-7931, Universidad de Alcalá), Miguel Martinez (0000-0002-9937-4189, University of Chicago)
Year2024
Volume13
Publication date2024-07-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Early Modern Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2279-7149 • E-ISSN: 2286-0290
PublisherFirenze University Press (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.36253/jems-2279-7149-15269
OpenAlexW4401174791
LanguageEN
References cited15

In this introduction to the JEMS collective volume Subaltern Writing and Popular Memory in the Early Modern World, the editors provide a historiographical and theoretical survey on the history of subaltern forms of literacy, as well as of popular modes of remembrance, mainly focused in the early modern period. While providing examples of the ways in which literacy has been carefully policed in different societies, giving way to structures of exclusion, it also points to the more or less fluid relation that common men and women from different backgrounds established with writing, occasionally using it to record personal memory and participate in the collective shaping of the past. The essay tackles the difficulty of recovering the written traces of common men and women, while surveying the ways in which this archive of subaltern writing and memory has been creatively constructed by subsequent scholarly interventions from very different disciplines, including anthropology, paleography, sociology, epigraphy, gender and sexuality studies, and social and cultural history

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