JaHyun Kim Haboush
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520254435
- eISBN:
- 9780520941519
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520254435.003.0014
- Subject:
- History, World Medieval History
Although they remain faceless, there were, at any given moment until the nineteenth century, at least 500 women in service at court during Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910). These women are often seen in the ...
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Although they remain faceless, there were, at any given moment until the nineteenth century, at least 500 women in service at court during Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910). These women are often seen in the dual perspectives of the metonymic and the metaphoric: as representation and signifier of the monarchy. At the Chosŏn court, palace women not only actively participated in the daily and ritual life of the court; they also produced objects, some of which reflect the individual hand of their creator. Still, these women are conceived of and presented collectively and anonymously. This chapter brings these women into focus and recovers their identities as historical subjects. It first looks at the material objects that they produced, locating those objects in their cultural and historical context in order to decode their meanings through a system of signification. It then considers two categories of writing: a memoir, The Record of the Event of 1613, and inner palace registries (palgi), accounts of the objects produced that were consumed daily and on special occasions at court.Less
Although they remain faceless, there were, at any given moment until the nineteenth century, at least 500 women in service at court during Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910). These women are often seen in the dual perspectives of the metonymic and the metaphoric: as representation and signifier of the monarchy. At the Chosŏn court, palace women not only actively participated in the daily and ritual life of the court; they also produced objects, some of which reflect the individual hand of their creator. Still, these women are conceived of and presented collectively and anonymously. This chapter brings these women into focus and recovers their identities as historical subjects. It first looks at the material objects that they produced, locating those objects in their cultural and historical context in order to decode their meanings through a system of signification. It then considers two categories of writing: a memoir, The Record of the Event of 1613, and inner palace registries (palgi), accounts of the objects produced that were consumed daily and on special occasions at court.
Roy Kay
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813037325
- eISBN:
- 9780813041582
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813037325.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, African-American Literature
From Phillis Wheatley to Alice Walker, the figural readings of Psalm 68:31—”Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God”—have been instrumental in the ...
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From Phillis Wheatley to Alice Walker, the figural readings of Psalm 68:31—”Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God”—have been instrumental in the articulation of black American historical subjectivity, imagination, knowledge, agency, and figurations of Ethiopia. This book maps the various allusions to and interpretations and citations of Psalm 68:31—a largely Protestant and Anglophone phenomenon—in black American letters, to show how it was read and to trace the readings it produced. Its method is twofold. First, the book demonstrates how black readers emerged as historical subjects through reading, arguing that reading is a material, eventful, performative, and transformative practice. Second, it shows how black readers read Psalm 68:31, also known as the Ethiopian Prophecy. For some readers, the psalm pointed to the Christianization and modernization of black peoples in both America and Africa, engendering, for instance, romantic ideas of race and the development of racial narratives such as the Afro-Asiatic myth. For other readers, Psalm 68:31 signified the emancipation of black slaves in America and their full inclusion as American citizens, or the end of colonialism and the rise of African independence. Another collection of black exegetes read the verse as one fragment in a vast textual storehouse that could be re-woven to create new poetic figures, narratives, and possibilities for black people and humanity. What the book demonstrates is the plasticity of Ethiopia as a figure of black imagination and thinking.Less
From Phillis Wheatley to Alice Walker, the figural readings of Psalm 68:31—”Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God”—have been instrumental in the articulation of black American historical subjectivity, imagination, knowledge, agency, and figurations of Ethiopia. This book maps the various allusions to and interpretations and citations of Psalm 68:31—a largely Protestant and Anglophone phenomenon—in black American letters, to show how it was read and to trace the readings it produced. Its method is twofold. First, the book demonstrates how black readers emerged as historical subjects through reading, arguing that reading is a material, eventful, performative, and transformative practice. Second, it shows how black readers read Psalm 68:31, also known as the Ethiopian Prophecy. For some readers, the psalm pointed to the Christianization and modernization of black peoples in both America and Africa, engendering, for instance, romantic ideas of race and the development of racial narratives such as the Afro-Asiatic myth. For other readers, Psalm 68:31 signified the emancipation of black slaves in America and their full inclusion as American citizens, or the end of colonialism and the rise of African independence. Another collection of black exegetes read the verse as one fragment in a vast textual storehouse that could be re-woven to create new poetic figures, narratives, and possibilities for black people and humanity. What the book demonstrates is the plasticity of Ethiopia as a figure of black imagination and thinking.
Alina Cała
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781874774051
- eISBN:
- 9781800340688
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781874774051.003.0043
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter discusses the third competition of scholarly works on Polish Jewish and Israeli themes. Like the previous two, the third master's and doctoral thesis competition in the field of Polish ...
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This chapter discusses the third competition of scholarly works on Polish Jewish and Israeli themes. Like the previous two, the third master's and doctoral thesis competition in the field of Polish Jewish and Israeli studies, held in 1995, was organized by the Polish–Israeli Friendship Society and the Jewish Historical Institute. This time, forty-six master's and ten doctoral theses were entered in the competition. The wide thematic range and level, as well as the number of theses, testify to the fact that Jewish historical subjects have now become part of the normal research scene, to the great satisfaction of the organizers of this competition. More and more research centres include Jewish studies in their list of research topics, and more and more often this research is carried out in depth, making use of the special tools indispensable for this work, particularly a good knowledge of Hebrew or Yiddish.Less
This chapter discusses the third competition of scholarly works on Polish Jewish and Israeli themes. Like the previous two, the third master's and doctoral thesis competition in the field of Polish Jewish and Israeli studies, held in 1995, was organized by the Polish–Israeli Friendship Society and the Jewish Historical Institute. This time, forty-six master's and ten doctoral theses were entered in the competition. The wide thematic range and level, as well as the number of theses, testify to the fact that Jewish historical subjects have now become part of the normal research scene, to the great satisfaction of the organizers of this competition. More and more research centres include Jewish studies in their list of research topics, and more and more often this research is carried out in depth, making use of the special tools indispensable for this work, particularly a good knowledge of Hebrew or Yiddish.
