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Against Historicist Fundamentalism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 October 2020
Extract
The rest of this essay devotes itself to an elaboration of that claim. Along the way I review the claim's implications for the study of literature in the world. I argue that assertions of fundamental difference, whether genetic or historical, reproduce the worst habits of Eurocentric thought.
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- theories and methodologies
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- PMLA , Volume 131 , Issue 5: Special Topic: Literature in the World , October 2016 , pp. 1414 - 1422
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- Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2016
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