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Hayden White borrows the title for The Practical Past from philosopher Michael Oakeshott, who used the term to describe the accessible material and literary-artistic artifacts that individuals and institutions draw on for guidance in quotidian affairs. The Practical Past, then, …
"Hayden White borrows the title for The Practical Past from philosopher Michael Oakeshott, who used the term to describe the accessible material and literary-artistic artifacts that individuals and institutions draw on for guidance in quotidian affairs. The Practical Past, then,…
Introduction: Between relationality and scalarity -- The labor of superfluity: Hannah Arendt, empire, and the Jews -- Colonial conspiracies: racializing Jews in the era of empire -- Men on horseback (1): the Marquis de Mores, nationalism, and imperial space-time -- Men on horseb…
"Globalizing Race explores how intersections between French antisemitism and imperialism shaped the development of European racial thought. Ranging from the African misadventures of the antisemitic Marquis de Morès to the Parisian novels and newspapers of late nineteenth-century…
Introduction: The Time Is Now -- The Novel after Tomorrow's Crash -- How to Read the Present -- The Tenses of Race: The Privilege of Contemporaneity and the Unequal Distribution of Presence -- Periodizing the Contemporary: Literary History after Postmodernism. "This book examin…
Introduction -- Conservation -- The Sertão Reconstructed: João Guimarães Rosa's Grande sertão: Veredas -- Narrative Conservation and Conservationist Narratives: Alejo Carpentier's Gran Sabana -- Development -- Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo and the Green Revolution: Modern Literary a…
