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historylessness en · NOUN

Etymology

From historyless + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Absence of history.
    • Brodber uses the most commonly recognized tropes of Caribbean discourse—and, to borrow a term from Gates's Signifying Monkey, " tropes the tropes" of exile, self-hatred, self-alienation, and longing for the sought after prestige of privileged white Otherness, elevating elsewhereism, accepting as natural a hegemonically imposed sense of historylessness, split subjectivity, dependence and psychic fragmentation. 2006, June E. Roberts, Reading Erna Brodber, page 58: