It's about time: some notes on quantum history.
The insistence on anachronism, where contemporary migrants forge the unauthorised routes of a present-day underground railroad, not only provides us with another means to map the present. It also reopens a past considered dead, gone, forgotten, and buried. Then, to think of migrants as travellers, i...
| Publicado en: | Postcolonial Studies Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 487 - 508 |
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