Postcolonial Apologies, Politics of Regret and Temporal Manichaeism
Rodrigo Escribano Roca,
Marcos Alonso Fernández
Abstract:The article analyzes the forms of temporality and morality which operate in the request for postcolonial apologies in modern democracies, focusing on the Mexican case. There is already rich literature on the changing mnemonic and historiographical interpretations of the Conquest in Mexican history up to the present day. In this paper the Mexican case serves as factual support to discuss theoretically the modes of temporal consciousness that underlie postcolonial apologies and the moral relations to the past th… Show more
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