“Of Monuments and Masks: historiography in the time of curiosity’s ruin”

Martin, David. 2007. “Of Monuments and Masks: historiography in the time of curiosity’s ruin”. Postcolonial Studies, 10(3), pp. 311-320. ISSN 1368-8790 [Article]

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Of Monuments and Masks represents an attempt to ‘take theory for a walk’. It represents an effort to enact a style of historiographic enquiry derived from the specific postcolonial concerns of Sankaran Krishna and Gyanendra Pandey. The subject of this historiographic enquiry is the very elusiveness of western rational thought which, to this day, remains haunted by its own dark spectres …

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Article

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https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790701488197

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Politics

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September 2007Published

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12560

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10 Aug 2015 14:56

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30 Jun 2017 10:53

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https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/12560

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