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This chapter examines the difficulty—even the impossibility—of establishing a notion of decolonial counter-historiography without reverting to the epistemological fetishes of traditional, Western historiography.
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Cortez, J. (2016). History. In: Ruiz, I.D., Sánchez, R. (eds) Decolonizing Rhetoric and Composition Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52724-0_4
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