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Historical hauntings: Coloniality, decoloniality, and the futures of medieval studies

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  1. Here, I want to pause and suggest that it may not only be Heidegger who is implicated in this moment. While Karl Marx was of Jewish descent and both his maternal and paternal grandfathers were rabbis, Marx converted to Lutheranism, and his essay ‘On the Jewish Question’ is considered by a number of scholars to be anti-semitic. Derrida’s use of Marx makes the air heavy with ambivalence. It creates an aporia that routes Derrida’s concern for ontological Being towards personal concern for his own being.

  2. Anasemia is a process by which the meaning of signs is problematized through fracture: ‘allophemic slippages, demetaphorization, spiraling language – ‘words buried alive’ that are ‘relieved of their communicative function’ yet articulate ‘that the desire was in a way satisfied, that the pleasure- able fulfillment did take place’ (Derrida and Johnson, 1977, 99).

  3. Mignolo and Walsh’s book is the inaugural title in Duke University Press’ new series, ‘On Decoloniality.’

  4. Other decolonial concepts which do this work in Walsh’s section include blackwomen, palabrandar, cimarronaje, and casa adentro.

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Ellard, D.B. Historical hauntings: Coloniality, decoloniality, and the futures of medieval studies. Postmedieval 10, 236–249 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-019-00128-w

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