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In an inspired re-reading of Frederick Douglas, Hegel, and History, Paul Gilroy identifies the state and the plantation, existing “non-synchronously” alongside one another, as twin components of order in the contemporary world. Douglas, and to some extent Gilroy, present the plantation as an “archaic” institution, “out of place in the modern world”—”a little nation of its own,” as Douglas puts it, “having its own language, its own rules, regulations and customs. The laws and institutions of the state apparently touch it nowhere” (Gilroy 57, 59).
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Pandey, G. (2015). The “State” and the “Plantation”: Writing Differently. In: Bammer, A., Joeres, RE.B. (eds) The Future of Scholarly Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137505965_9
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