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Editor's Column: Historicism, Presentism, Futurism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Wai Chee Dimock
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PMLA , Volume 133 , Issue 2 , March 2018 , pp. 257 - 263
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2018

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