{"title":"In Search of a Pan-African Commonwealth","authors":"C. Robinson","doi":"10.1080/13504639652439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504639652439","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":157043,"journal":{"name":"Cedric J. Robinson","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130431221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T he triumph of the West as a historical system has constituted a nearly incontestable essentialist envelope surrounding Western literature for the past three centuries. The telos of the narrative of the epistemic West is by now so familiar and its logic so compelling that it can be costumed as natural history: "the West" is conceived in a genealogy of civic virtue and moral progress from ancient Athens to twentieth-century America.2 With the for-
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