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Beyond Occidentalism: Toward Nonimperial Geohistorical Categories
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The social revolution ... cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all its superstitions concerning the past. Earlier revolutions relied on memories out of world history in order to drug themselves against their own content. In order to find their own content, the revolutions of the nineteenth century have to let the dead bury the dead. Before, the expression exceeded the content; now the content exceeds the expression. [1967:223]
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- Coronil, F.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Corresponding author
- Coronil, Fernando
- Venue
- Cultural Anthropology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1996-02
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
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- 51-87
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- 0886-7356 (ISSN-L)
- 1548-1360
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- W2077772547
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- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Cultural Studies and Colonialism
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies
- Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
- Keywords
- Occidentalism, geohistory, imperialism, Western exceptionalism, historiography, postcolonial historiography
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