The End of History. or, is it? Circularity versus Progress in Caryl Phillips' "The Nature of Blood"

In the wake of the revisionist thinking of the Enlightenment and its self-legitimising narratives, history is no longer accepted as linear time projected into a future ever open to gradual progress and freedom. This breakdown of linearity together with the acknowledgement of the discipline's textual...

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title The End of History. or, is it? Circularity versus Progress in Caryl Phillips' "The Nature of Blood"
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historical novel
postmodernism
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