Ann M. Axtmann
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780813049113
- eISBN:
- 9780813050010
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813049113.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, Dance
This chapter analyzes Native American notions of space and time and the critical importance of the sacred hoop as it is embodied in the circular arena of the powwow. “Traveling circles” express ...
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This chapter analyzes Native American notions of space and time and the critical importance of the sacred hoop as it is embodied in the circular arena of the powwow. “Traveling circles” express “imagined communities” that challenge the status quo of the nation-state. The reader is introduced in this chapter to the often arduous journeys along powwow circuits as well as to powwow entrance ways and performance areas. Axtmann explains how bodies in motion function as primary sites of powwow activity, activity manifest in terms of spatial relations; in expressions of Indian and non-Indian temporality; and in interrelationships--intertribal, interracial, and transcultural--among participants. Pre-performance waiting, powwow entertainment, and the drum roll call are also discussed as preludes to the beginning of the powwow: the Grand Entry.Less
This chapter analyzes Native American notions of space and time and the critical importance of the sacred hoop as it is embodied in the circular arena of the powwow. “Traveling circles” express “imagined communities” that challenge the status quo of the nation-state. The reader is introduced in this chapter to the often arduous journeys along powwow circuits as well as to powwow entrance ways and performance areas. Axtmann explains how bodies in motion function as primary sites of powwow activity, activity manifest in terms of spatial relations; in expressions of Indian and non-Indian temporality; and in interrelationships--intertribal, interracial, and transcultural--among participants. Pre-performance waiting, powwow entertainment, and the drum roll call are also discussed as preludes to the beginning of the powwow: the Grand Entry.
Ning Ma
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190606565
- eISBN:
- 9780190606589
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190606565.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This book advances a “horizontal” method of comparative literature and applies this approach to analyze the multiple emergences of early realism and novelistic modernity in Eastern and Western ...
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This book advances a “horizontal” method of comparative literature and applies this approach to analyze the multiple emergences of early realism and novelistic modernity in Eastern and Western cultural spheres from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Naming this era of economic globalization the “Age of Silver,” this study emphasizes the bullion flow from South America and Japan to China through international commerce, and argues that the resultant transcontinental monetary and commercial coevolutions stimulated analogous socioeconomic shifts and emergent novelistic realism in places such as China, Japan, Spain, and England. The main texts it addresses include The Plum in the Golden Vase (anonymous, China, late sixteenth century); Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes, Spain, 1605 and 1615); The Life of an Amorous Man (Ihara Saikaku, Japan, 1682); and Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe, England, 1719). These Eastern and Western narratives indicate from their own geographical vantage points commercial expansion’s stimulation of social mobility and larger processes of cultural destabilization. Their realist tendencies are underlain with nationally symbolic and politically critical functions. This horizontal argument realigns novelistic modernity with a multipolar global context and reestablishes commensurabilities between Eastern and Western literary histories. On a broader level, it challenges the unilateral equation of globalization and modernity with westernization, and foregrounds a polycentric mode of global early modernity for pluralizing the genealogy of “world literature” and historical transcultural relations.Less
This book advances a “horizontal” method of comparative literature and applies this approach to analyze the multiple emergences of early realism and novelistic modernity in Eastern and Western cultural spheres from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Naming this era of economic globalization the “Age of Silver,” this study emphasizes the bullion flow from South America and Japan to China through international commerce, and argues that the resultant transcontinental monetary and commercial coevolutions stimulated analogous socioeconomic shifts and emergent novelistic realism in places such as China, Japan, Spain, and England. The main texts it addresses include The Plum in the Golden Vase (anonymous, China, late sixteenth century); Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes, Spain, 1605 and 1615); The Life of an Amorous Man (Ihara Saikaku, Japan, 1682); and Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe, England, 1719). These Eastern and Western narratives indicate from their own geographical vantage points commercial expansion’s stimulation of social mobility and larger processes of cultural destabilization. Their realist tendencies are underlain with nationally symbolic and politically critical functions. This horizontal argument realigns novelistic modernity with a multipolar global context and reestablishes commensurabilities between Eastern and Western literary histories. On a broader level, it challenges the unilateral equation of globalization and modernity with westernization, and foregrounds a polycentric mode of global early modernity for pluralizing the genealogy of “world literature” and historical transcultural relations.
