Delhi, diaspora and religious consciousness: heritage and palimpsest architecture in M. G. Vassanji’s A Place Within: Rediscovering India
Intangible heritage and architecture, articulate specific cultural processes and history. In Vassanji’s non-fictional narrative A Place Within: Rediscovering India, there is place-making through the lens of culture, religion, history, politics and migration. Positioning himself as a tourist to his a...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2019
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Culture and religion
Jahr: 2019, Band: 20, Heft: 4, Seiten: 409-425 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Vassanji, M. G. 1950-, A place within
/ Delhi
/ Architektur
/ Palimpsest
/ Kultur
/ Religiöses Bewusstsein
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| RelBib Classification: | AE Religionspsychologie AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion KBM Asien |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
palimpsest architecture
B Delhi B religion and architecture B Vassanji B Diaspora |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Intangible heritage and architecture, articulate specific cultural processes and history. In Vassanji’s non-fictional narrative A Place Within: Rediscovering India, there is place-making through the lens of culture, religion, history, politics and migration. Positioning himself as a tourist to his ancestral homeland, the author makes observations that can be critiqued through the concept of ‘palimpsest’ – an intriguing ‘layering’ that gesture at wider circuits of culture. This study is an examination of the diasporic consciousness, religious encounters; heritage narrative features, the tracing of overlapping cultural spheres in Delhi, aesthetic and political tensions, as represented in Vassanji’s narrative. The article is an exploration of a broad system of cultural and religious discursive constructions and practices in architecture, as suggested in the non-fictional narrative. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-5629 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Culture and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2020.1833057 |