https://doi.org/10.25058/issn.2011-2742

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Fantasies of Freedom: Comparing Indentured Labor and the Border Industrial Complex in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies

Amrita Mishra, University of Texas at Austin, USA

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De Instauranda Æthiopum Salute: On the Editions and Features in Alonso de Sandoval’s Work

Eduardo Restrepo, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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Modern another way. Caribbean lessons from the savage’s place

Michel-Rolph Trouillot rolph@uchicago.edu University of Chicago Abstract: “Modernity” is a cloudy term belonging to a familiy of words we might label as “NorthAthlantic universals”. These are particulars that have reached a universal degree; they are pieces of human history being turned into historical standards. This paper sustains that in its mainstream display, as a North-Atlantic […]

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