3. RADICALIZING TEMPORAL DIFFERENCE: ANTHROPOLOGY, POSTCOLONIAL THEORY, AND LITERARY TIME.
ABSTRACT This article is an attempt to address on a theoretical level an antinomy in postcolonial approaches to the question of temporal difference. Current scholarship tends both to denounce the way in which the others of the Western self are placed notionally in another time than the West and not...
| Publicado en: | History & Theory Vol. 53; no. 4; pp. 545 - 563 |
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