House/daughter/nation: interiority, architecture, and historical imagination in Janaki Majumdar's "Family History."
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Female writers from various countries use home as a tool for remembrance, reflecting the strong influence of domesticity in the patriarchal household. Home is not perceived as a stationary place but appears ideologically to transcend national boundaries. Female writers store memory in the home to make the home seem permanent, with home depicted in non-fiction narratives as history. The family's houses throughout the past set the scene for the narrative in the family memoir "Family History" by Janaki Agnes Penelope Majumdar, with family memoirs bearing witness to national, as well as historical, consciousness.
Publication Name: The Journal of Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-9118
Year: 1997
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A road is made: roads temples, and historical memory is Ya'an country Sichuan
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The history of one forty-kilometer road in western Sichuan Province is discussed, arguing that the messy cultural meaning of the road can be seen in the temples that serve as hubs in a network of negotiated interests, places saturated with morality and memory. Roads bring to light this virtual presence, as other modernization projects do in China's saturated landscape.
Publication Name: The Journal of Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-9118
Year: 2004
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The matriarch's private ear: Performance, reading, Censorship, and the fabrication of interiority in the Story of the Stone
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The influence of the more conservative ethos of the Qing, namely the Jia household, enjoying the performance of romantic plays is always acceptable but reading the play texts is considered scandalous. In The Story of the Stone other episodes of overhearing or private listening and how the experiences of reading and listening are intermingled are explored.
Publication Name: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0073-0548
Year: 2005
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